Good fiction book set in present day Paris
Aug 24th, 2011, 03:13 AM
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It's not present day, but I recently enjoyed "Murder on the Eiffel Tower" - easy-reading crime fiction set in the 19th century.
Someone already mentioned "A Year in the Merde", there's a whole series of these books. I think from memory I was irritated by his whole laddish perspective, but a lot of people like them, and perhaps as you're a guy it won't get on your nerves so much
In the non-fiction department, I recently read 'Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris' by Graeme Robb. It's written as a series of vignettes rather than a conventional history, some of which are very interesting and different from what you would get in a standard history of Paris. However, he often tries far too hard to be clever and experimental (e.g. one chapter written in the form of a screenplay was particularly egregious).
Someone already mentioned "A Year in the Merde", there's a whole series of these books. I think from memory I was irritated by his whole laddish perspective, but a lot of people like them, and perhaps as you're a guy it won't get on your nerves so much
In the non-fiction department, I recently read 'Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris' by Graeme Robb. It's written as a series of vignettes rather than a conventional history, some of which are very interesting and different from what you would get in a standard history of Paris. However, he often tries far too hard to be clever and experimental (e.g. one chapter written in the form of a screenplay was particularly egregious).
