1 comments about Los Angeles County Street Guide & Directory 1999: The Thomas Guide.

1. As a child growing up in Los Angeles, I knew the Thomas Brothers map to be always a household "must" and quite a special and unique institution, really. No citizen of L.A. should be without one, especially if one really wants to get to know the city. I myself spent countless hours in "exploring" in the map, and quite frankly was turned into a person who can find anything in any city and who truly became an "explorer" of sorts. That is, my adventures in the map were always followed by the real thing -- I'd hop on the good old RTD bus and head out to find it for real. I credit the Thomas Brothers for helping to make me the "can do," problem solving, adventurous person that I am today. On a recent visit to L.A., I spent a little time with the map again and noted that it now shows, with pink lines, the property lines of the old Spanish "ranchos." Wow! Absolutely fascinating! You can see how those property lines developed into main streets and city boundaries. Highly recommended! Every major city should have a Thomas Brothers, but then it might not be so special and unique!

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3 comments about Hungry?: A Guide to LA's Greatest Diners, Dives, Coffee Shops, and Cafeterias!.

1. There are perhaps a dozen or more books out there about where to eat in Los Angeles, but this is the one recommended by the staff of the Los Angeles Almanac. It has all our favorite calorie-loading haunts as well as many we don't even know about and sure would like to try. What we like best - unlike so many other snobbish L.A. where-to-eat books, this one doesn't ignore the rich culinary terrain of L.A. County's Eastside (Taco King rules!). Keep this guidebook in your glovebox along with your Thomas Guide!



2. If you are in LA and you are hungry then you need this book. Heck, you don't even have to be in LA or hungry, this is one swell book. Lots of fun to read, informative yet witty without being silly. The section on Cheese Breads alone is worth the price.



3. We have now tried out about 10 of the places in this book, and have not been disappointed yet! This is a great guide for those of us that are looking for good (sometimes even great) food without spending a lot of money. Most telling, while we always check out Hungry? before we head out into a new part of LA, we never even glance at our Zagat guide (which was given as a gift 3 year ago when we moved here)! Zagat may be good if you've got money to spend, but the Hungry? guide is the one to get if you're looking for some hidden gems in LA.

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5 comments about Loop Group.

1. I think McMurtry should stay out of Hollywood and stick with Texas! It's an interesting aspect of Hollywood life, the loop groups, and I cared enough about the characters to want to finish the book, but I would not buy another McMurty on Hollywood!



2. 'Loop Group' does not measure up to Larry McMurtry's previous works in style and contents. Its central character, Maggie Clary, is a long way from equaling the irrespressibly funny and endearing Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment. The setting of the story (Hollywood) is colorful, yet the road trip from California to Texas is mostly unremarkable, except perhaps for two brief encounters with nutty hichhikers.
   
   Maggie could be described as 'interesting' at best, and would have enjoyed much more fictional possibilities had she had not been undermined by an unsympathetic supporting cast of characters.
   
   Connie, like her best friend, is a 60 year-old spunky amazon who despite her loyalty to Maggie, has an quirky personality that is often bitchy, whiny, and whimsical. Maggie's three daughters, while appearing to be concerned about their mother's depressed state of mind, are in reality selfishly wrapped up in their own shallow pursuits to escape their personal insufficiencies. The members of Primary Loops, Maggie's looping* company, comprises a bunch of drug addicts and other marginal oddballs who fall short of their fictional potential.
   
   The supposedly cathartic roadtrip that Maggie undertakes with Connie across the American Southwest has nothing really engaging in it that you could expect after McMurtry's other novels. It takes place well halfway into the novel and at its culmination, we meet Aunt Cooney, Maggie's 90 year-old aunt, who seems at the outset to be eccentric and generous, but in the end shows her true side as an immensely bitter woman.
   
   The story line takes us from one unlikable character to the next, to draw an uninteresting sketch full of loose ends and irrelevant details. The dialog is awash with vulgarity and the book ends as as it began, with total lack of meaning.
   
   *looping (definition from the Movie Database): The re-recording of dialogue by actors in a sound studio during post-production, usually performed to playback of edited picture in order to match lip movements on screen. It is frequently used to replace production track of poor quality (e.g., due to high levels of background noise) or to change the delivery or inflection of a line. Looping can also be used to insert new lines of dialogue which are conceived during editing, although such lines can only be placed against picture in which the face of the actor speaking is not visible.



3. I borrow the audio book from the library I could not get pass the first chapter the voice was just terrible.



4. How could an author capable of great works put out such drivel? So many reviewers mention that they kept reading this book since it is by McMurtry. My wife and I sat through half of it for the same reason and because it was our only book on CD for our frequent 9 hour drive to Oregon. Save yourself this agony.



5. If nothing else, this book shows what a wonderful and talented writer does when the well goes dry. This was horrible. The characters are all one dimensional, there's nothing particularly interesting about the plot, and who cares what happens to Maggie! The man who wrote Movin On, Terms of Endearment, and Lonesome Dove did not write this crap. Obviously Mr. McMurtry knows that his place in American literature is secure, so now he can throw out this type of drivel. Needless to say, I will not be buying this novel to add to my McMurtry collection.

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