The Underground Guide To Los Angeles, 2nd Edition

By: Gehman, Pleasant

Book Overview

The ultimate lowdown on the secret splendor and seediness that is Los Angeles.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916397815
• ISBN13: 9780916397814
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Manic D Press, Inc.
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.2" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Tons of way cool stuff

While this book does include some LA basic tourist stuff, it also includes tons of record stores, thrift shops, strange history places, and Bukowski's grave site. Great dive bar recommendations and cheap eats, too. The chapter written by LA scenester Vaginal Davis is the funniest thing I've ever read in any guidebook anywhere and is itself worth the price of this book... a fun book for visitors and residents alike - loved it!

The most outstanding guide book I've ever seen!

After checking out just a few of the places this guidebook recommended, I knew the authors were real experts on their city. The places they sent us were everything they said they would be. This book is a must if you want to see the real and the really exciting L.A.

Indispensible for partying/surviving in LA!

This book has chapters on music, restaurants, great places to buy clothes, see art, go to thriftstores, etc. I've lived in LA for four years and never even heard of some of these places! The chapters are all fun, too, not boring like regular guide-books. Some are like essays, most are hysterically funny, full of personality. The writers included in this collection are diverse. Some are well-known, some are poets, others, like Rob Zebrecky (of Possum Dixon) are musicians. This would be a good gift for a visitor, or even someone who lives in LA.