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Old January 12th, 2005, 06:55 PM
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Cancun User's Guide 2005
By Jules Siegel with Anita Brown and Faera, Eli and Jesse Siegel
$17.58, 204 pages, 6 in. x 9 in., color cover, fully illustrated

The Cancun User's Guide 2005 http://www.lulu.com/jules contains 204
densely packed pages of candid advice, recommendations and cultural
information written in a clear, popular style, and illustrated with
photographs, drawings and maps. It will not only help readers save
money and have more fun when visiting Cancun, but also understand
Mexico better.

Celebrated writer Jules Siegel (Playboy, Best American Short Stories,
San Francisco Chronicle) and his family have been living and working in
Cancun since 1983. Cancun is not just a tourism resort, Jules Siegel
explains, but a brilliant example of modern Mexican economic planning
and social engineering.

More than half the text is devoted to the Cancun Directory, in which
the Siegels share their vast store of local survival secrets in a
detailed alphabetical listing filled with personal tips that other
guide books rarely cover. The book has the same mordant honesty and
ferocious humor as Siegel's articles and fiction in cutting edge
publications such as the Village Voice and Rolling Stone.

When the Siegels left the United States in 1981, he had an assignment
to do the Playboy Interview with then-president Jos=E9 L=F3pez-Portillo,
not a trivial task, as it turned out. He writes, "I gave up on in 1989
that after a presidential security guard commiserated, 'Siempre dicen
s=ED; nunca dicen cuando.'-- 'They always say yes, but the never say
when.' I guess Playboy is a little too risque for Mexican presidents."
Meanwhile, Jules had returned to his original trade of graphic design
to survive.

"We were broke a lot of the time, had innumerable scrapes with greedy
landlords and rapacious employers," Siegel writes. "I went to jail for
three days, falsely accused of fraud. Justice triumphed, fortunately.
The jail was one of those experiences you really need to write a book
like this, but not one that you tend to look for with the same zeal as
a Playboy Interview with a head of state."

Unlike other guides, the Cancun User's Guide is revised frequently and
printed on demand. The content is always current. The third edition,
which went on sale on Jan. 2, 2005, has already been revised twice to
include new recommendations. "The book you have is the book we lived,"
Jules says. "We're still living it, so the book is always growing."

--
JULES SIEGEL Apdo. 1764 77501-Cancun Q. Roo Mexico
Cancun User's Guide 2005 http://www.lulu.com/jules

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