Paris to the Moon (Abridged) Audiobook

" I had to read this a few times for some French classes. It's a great memoir/commentary on living life while experiencing another culture. Short chapters read like short stories so you can skip around and read, or not read, the whole book at your leisure. "

" Excellent, finely wrought essays on Americans in Paris. "

" Enjoyable read from the New Yorker author Adam Gopnik. If you are a francophile or love Paris you will enjoy this book about the idiosyncracies of french culture. "

" I couldn't finish this book. I'm not sure if it was just me, but I really didn't enjoy it. Too many political ramblings. "

" Read this a couple years ago, but I bought a copy at a library sale and reread it. Some of the stories didn't enthrall me, but others, like "Angels Dining at the Ritz", are a beautiful mix of emotion and experience that ramble in your memory for a while. "

" Slow going for me at first but then I got totally sucked in and found myself laughing aloud at everything! "

" The parts of this memoir that shine are the parts about his family and dealing with the cultural differences Gopnik and his wife and son experienced together. The chapters that he spent with his son on the carousel and in the Ritz swimming pool were priceless. However, at least one fourth of this book was so mind-numbing I couldn't read it. He should have skipped the political crap and used only the parts with his family in their small apartment with the kitchen down the long hall and lassoing the lights around his Christmas tree. There were seriously parts of this book that were brilliant and made me laugh out loud and retell stories to other people and others that made me want to put it down and never open it again in fear that I would instantly fall asleep. "

" Very enjoyable overall, esp. if you love Paris. Gopnik writes for the New Yorker--and he's good. "

" This book took me years to get through somehow, because I kept putting it down, forgetting about it, and picking it up again months later, but I am very glad I finally finished it! "

" This book was a delight to read. I've always dreamed of what it would be like to live in Paris - and not a fantastical rendition of it either. It was fun to read about Gopnik's everyday experiences in the same places I have been. "

" A light, charming book about about a family's life in Paris. The strongest sections are about family, rather than intellectual, life. These passages about neonatal care in France, finding a gym in Paris, and his son's favorite excursions are what make the book. "

" another excellent 'vicarious' writer... felt i'd lived there too "

" I'm on a French kick, so a friend loaned me this. Such. Good. Writing. "

" I really enjoyed this book, but mainly because I love Paris so much. It is a compilation of articles that the author wrote for the New Yorker about living with his family in Paris. If you like Paris, you will probably like this book. "

" I loved this book. Parts are laugh-out-loud funny. "

" great essays reflecting on life as a foreigner. i reread this last year after six years. i liked it even better after experiencing being a foreigner myself. "

" Snorting laughter. A must if you have small children. "

" A wonderful book! Best contemporary book on living in Paris, I think. "

" Parker and I have a longtime dream to live abroad with our kids- this book keeps that dream alive and gets quoted a lot while raising our kids in DC (Ce va, Swimmy, ce va?) "

" This book is about the author, Adam, his wife Martha and young son Luke. They move to Paris in 1995 for 5 years. The book consists of essays written during his time there "

" i love this man and I want his life. "

" I have been reading this book since August, and I just can't seem to finish it. The middle of the book seems to drag. I love the idea behind the story: running away with your adult family to raise a child in Paris. However, there is not enough action for my taste. "

" I really enjoyed the prose in this book. He writes beautfully. "

" This book about a young couple and the small child who move to Paris and live for four years. I enjoyed Adam Gopnik's juxtaposing of American and Parian culture. It made me want to return to Paris and enjoy all things "French". "

" It's been awhile since I read it, but I enjoyed the author's accounts of relocating his family to Paris. I very much loved that city when I visited and appreciated his contrasting American life with French living. "

" I'd really looked forward to this book, and was disappointed. I guess I don't know enough about Parisian urban politics to get as much out of this as I should. "

" travelogue of an American in Paris. It took me six months to read. "

" Interesting view of Paris (and France) from an American's perspective, but I felt he took too many liberties in assuming he understood the ins and outs of the entire country's issues from politics, to food, and even fashion. "

" Laugh out loud funny in places, this memoire can read almost like a novel. The contrasts between a Parisian existance and a New York one are fascinating, and the view of this man's family makes you love them all. "

" I read this a few years ago, and just noticed it on a list. I had read a lot of his articles in the New Yorker before this came out; still loved it. Gopnik writes so beautifully of Paris, it always reminds me of our trips there, and makes me wish for more. "

" sorry just couldn't get into this book. will put it on the side, maybe it will be better reading another time. "

" I don't speak French, so some of it went over my head. But overall, the views of a New Yorker living in Paris during the late 1990's and the cultural comparisons (with humor) was quite interesting. "

" I'm loving this book so far! "