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A review by dougthomson
I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir by Art Buchwald
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
4.0
This is a funny book, to be expected since Buchwald was a famous newspaper humorist in the 1960s, 70s, maybe 80s era. There are many great stories of his life in Europe, mostly Paris. On the downside though, he never seemed to become more than a "class clown" type personality. For example, he admits to have never become fluent in French despite living in Paris for 14 years. Also, his stories typically are of the "funny gag" or "I got away with a prank" or "I hobnobbed with celebrities" variety, without a lot of depth. By contrast, a similar American-expatriate-living-in-Paris story, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, contains many funny stories but the stories have more uniqueness, subtlety, interesting characters and depth.