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Hotel Babylon

By Imogen Edwards-Jones

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| eBook | 9781446497739

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'Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.'

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This book is better than the TV series! All the incidents happened in 24 hours! It exposed the dark side of hotel business as well as the weird behaviour of the hotel guests (well, may be they think no one will judge and care what they do in the hotel?). Overall, the book is worth reading and so ... (continue)

This book is better than the TV series! All the incidents happened in 24 hours! It exposed the dark side of hotel business as well as the weird behaviour of the hotel guests (well, may be they think no one will judge and care what they do in the hotel?). Overall, the book is worth reading and some of the gags are fun! I will definately read Air Babylon afterward.

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Mandy said on Jul 3, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Interesting at the beginning but plots are repeated afterwards. Imogen describes the kitchen work, the drunks and celebrities again and again. Characters of most customers are just the same: drunken, weird, prostitutes. There are few pages that make me laugh, but most of them are quite boring.
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Interesting at the beginning but plots are repeated afterwards. Imogen describes the kitchen work, the drunks and celebrities again and again. Characters of most customers are just the same: drunken, weird, prostitutes. There are few pages that make me laugh, but most of them are quite boring.
Topics are poorly-organized. I’d rather Imogen separate them into different categories (e.g. gossip about hotel staff, different kinds of customers, bars & ballrooms, services you just can’t imagine, etc.) than describing anything arbitrarily like brain-storm in one hour per chapter.

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Purple Rain said on Mar 13, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

1 person find this helpful

air babylon is a lot better than this...

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Saladmiracle said on Jun 24, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Real life stories and ancedotes that actually took place over a period of ten years. However for the benfit of writing a book the author has compressed events into a period of twenty-four hours! Just another day in an expensive London hotel, but which one? We are given the names of a number of other ... (continue)

Real life stories and ancedotes that actually took place over a period of ten years. However for the benfit of writing a book the author has compressed events into a period of twenty-four hours! Just another day in an expensive London hotel, but which one? We are given the names of a number of other London hotels so we know where the events did not happen! The twenty-four hour shift is a whirlwind of action, probably just to pack in all the ancedotes as I cannot believe it would always be so chaotic!! Anyway it is an easy read and an amusing insight into life in a hotel from the employees side of the reception desk.

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Lindyloumac said on Sep 28, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Perfect for reading on bed..especially when one's in a hotel

Very entertaining ... and actually makes me more understanding and tolerant of the occasional disappointment I personally encounter in those hotels!

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Catitude said on Oct 2, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback