We'll always have Paris: Sex and love in the city of Light

It's impossible to find a harsh word about this book by long time Paris resident, John Baxter. The Paris ex-pat blogging community loves it but I suspect it's because the novel makes for a topical blog item. The book is essentially a collection of bits and pieces about the naughty Gay Paree of the 20s and 30s interspersed with personal experience (ill-mannered guests and his wife's difficult pregnancy). I spend a lot of time in Paris and I love to read about my favourite city but this book didn't grab me. Call me jaded or perhaps just hard to please but I found it superficial and not particularly informative. I'd advise those looking to experience a sense of what Paris is really about to read Adam Gopnick's From Paris To The Moon, Edmund White's The Flaneur or even Gertrude Stein's Paris France.