The Hotel on Place Vendome Book Reviews

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The Hotel on Place Vendome. Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, just one criticism the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson spent the war years in the Bahamas not Bermuda.

Verbose.... Long winded sentence structures disrupted with parenthetical wanderings leave you exhausted after just the prologue. The author has a peculiar habit of scrambling the sentence flow with unnecessary and redundant phrases. Almost like English is not their first language. Comprehension is most natural when the basic English sentence structure is utilized; Subject / Verb / Object. Instead the author mashes up multiple thoughts into a single sentence and separates one thought with another, isolating verbs from their objects, so that by the time you reach the period, you forgot what you read. Take this excerpt for example: “On damp evenings, the hard pavements and the worn stone façades that encircled the Place Vendôme, an octagonal circus in the city’s ultrafashionable first arrondissement, sent the sounds of wheels and horses’ hooves and shrill women’s voices off in clattering echoes that seemed to come back from all directions like a surprise assault on the senses.” There's 3 distinct thoughts in that "sentence" that would be much better delivered in 3 sentences, or least each thought kept continuous unto itself. While that one sample might not throw you off too much, try getting through a whole chapter of this. Apart from confusing grammar, there is also a lot of redundant phraseology. By the time you've gotten into chapter two, the author must have said a dozen different ways “The opening of the Hôtel Ritz in Paris was the society sensation of June 1898." The impact is lost after the third mention. I'm not advocating that remedial grammar and writing should come at the expense of creativity, but persistently odd grammar will just make a book inaccessible for most readers. I was so excited for this book because I love the subject matter. But I couldn't take it after chapter two. Hope you have better luck. Bye bye $12.99 (or whatever it cost me). Reader beware.

"Grand Hotel" on Place Vendôme. This is Hollywood not history. The plot could be just an update of the 1932 classic movie but with impressive footnotes, references and sources added at the end. While two world wars are fought and the Cold War starts and ends and the Euro-zone comes into being, the principal focus is who is in bed with whom (often at the Ritz). May be fascinating but misses being meaningful.

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