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	• Resident Tourist: Los Angeles Kelly Mayfield, Chuck Mindenhall, ... L.A. Weekly Books, 2002 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wish there was more

This is a great sampling. I am a hotel concierge and I'm always looking for new/overlooked places to impress the guest who thinks he's done it all. This book has great listings, but doesn't give enough of them. I know things change around here, so keeping up isn't easy. I would like more options per neighborhood.

Resident Tourist

This is a truly funny book. After living in LA for 10 years, I found some new and interesting places to visit. I never would have found some of these in a standard travel book.

Worth the read

I bought this book because I am leaving LA in a few months after living here for 4 years, and wanted to get the most out of my time left. I am glad I got it. Not only is it worth much more than the price (it's so cheap used!), but the descriptions are quite entertaining.

I do agree with a previous reviewer who disliked the relative paucity of items / places described; I felt there could be more. And some of the chapters read more like magazine articles than tour guides. I also was a bit offended by the first chapter, "Adult Los Angeles." Why did it have to be in the book? Why did it have to be the first chapter? But the other insights and the enthusiasm of the book are useful and compelling. I've enjoyed both reading the book and visiting the places it recommends (besides those of the first chapter, of course).

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There is another Los Angeles that exists beyond the Tar Pits, the Hollywood Sign and the bus tours of "stars" homes. It's the real Los Angeles and it offers more unique, interesting and one-of-a-kind experiences, whether you're a lifetime resident or just visiting for the weekend, than any stop on a tour bus.

Resident Tourist uncovers diverse locations throughout Los Angeles that are lighter on the pocketbook and less in the spotlight than the typical haunts filled with camera toting out-of-towners, with a focus on giving you your own truly memorable only-in-L.A experience.

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