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American family's candid guide to Cancun is updated for 2005
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 Newsroom-l, news and issues for journalists http://www.newsroom-l.net/blog |
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