1 comments about Insight City Guide Rome (Book & Restaurant Guide).

1. If you are prepared to invest a lot of time into your guidebook, there is a lot of information contained within Insight's Rome City Guide. It has detailed essays and beautiful photographs of 15 main areas within Rome. That's it for the positive.
   
   Overall, I found the book boring and difficult to use. The key problems are:
   1. The good information is buried. It is not the sort of book you can pick up, jump to a section, and get good information. It will take you a while to find what you are looking for, and then you have to read a lot of words.
   
   2. The writing style is very dry - similar to a textbook. All too often when reading this guidebook I drifted off and would lose my place on the page.
   
   3. The maps are difficult to use and hard to read. I never got my bearing of Rome until I bought another book.
   
   I gave up on this book after a while and went and got the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Rome. The maps are better and it's easier to read. In fact, the DK guides are an absolute pleasure to read.

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4 comments about The Beatles in Rome 1965: Photographs by Marcello Geppetti.

1. What a delightful treat! Marcello Geppetti's photographs of the Beatles' 1965 tour in Rome is sure to captivate all who see them.
   
   I loved coming across more information about Beatle concerts in Europe; these photographs bring home the fun, joy and laughter that the Beatles in 1965 shared.



2. At one point in "A Hard Day's Night" Paul's grandfather (Wilfred Brambell) succinctly summarizes the tedium of touring when he complains, "I thought I was supposed to be getting a change of scenery. But so far I've been in a train and a room, a car and a room, and a room and a room."
   
   Substitute plane for train, and Italy for England, and you pretty much have the content of this slim volume, which is ostensibly about their four Rome concerts in June 1965. In the twenty-eight photos reproduced, we see the group arriving at the airport, wandering the halls of their hotel (including a fuzzy balcony shot), seated at their press conference, and finally onstage at the Teatro Adriano. Sharp-eyed fans will recognize Beatle roadies Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans and manager Brian Epstein in several shots; there are no captions accompanying any of the photos.
   
   The text, devoted to lauding Geppetti's candid photographic style, which we are reminded (again and again) gave birth to the paparazzi style of celebrity photography, would have been better suited to a retrospective of the man's oeuvre. Even commentary by Rolando Giambelli, who attended one of the shows and is identified as a member of The Beatle People Association of Italy, offers little on the group, presenting his recollections only as a context from which to further praise the photographer.
   
   Marcello's photos would have been much better served illustrating a booklet accompanying a CD of their Rome press conference or (better yet) a Beatleg of their shows. This is the kind of niche Beatles book you could browse in five minutes and never miss reading again.
   
   Save your money.



3. Absolutely captivating photos! While accompanying text offers an Italian perspective and background about the photographer, the images speak for themselves - a great addition to any Beatles fan's collection!



4. I should have relied on the reviews and skipped this one. There's barely anything to it, and most of the photos are of poor quality. NOT a good value. Even the most fanatical Beatles devotee (a description in which I include myself)will be disappointed. I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because at least the subject is worthwhile.

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