Hotel Babylon
by Imogen Edwards-Jones
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Author: Imogen Edwards-JonesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-12-07
ISBN: 042520135X
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Blue Hen Trade
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Book Review: A fabulous read
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful book ! Not only is the subject - behind the scenes in a posh London hotel - fascinating in its own right, but it is brilliantly told. We follow the activities in the hotel hour by hour, from one dawn to the next, and in the course of the day and night we meet an amazing variety of people, the wealthy who patronise the hotel, and the shrewd who exist to indulge their every whim. But instead of being a dull plod, plod round the clock, we see it all through the eyes of a receptionist who knows everyone and sees everything, and who recounts it to us with a wealth of astonishing details and hair-raising (and often very funny !) anecdotes. I rarely read a book cover to cover at a single sitting, but this one I did - I haven't enjoyed a book so much in a long while. Imogen Edwards-Jones invites us to slip in through the back door to peek at an amazing private world that you'd never guess just by looking through the establishment's palatial front entrance. Give yourself a treat - buy this marvellous book !
Summary of Hotel Babylon
The manager of an exclusive boutique hotel (who shall remain nameless) exposes the low-life styles of the rich and famous.
And we're not talking just loud all-night bashes...
The anonymous author has encountered lavish drug parties, gorgeous call girls, naked guests falling out of windows, $9,000 bottles of wine, astronomical telephone porn bills, bathtubs of Evian, and on more than one occasion, dead sheep. And every dirty word of it is true.
This is a trawl through the decadence and debauchery of the ultimate service industry?where money not only talks, but gets guests the best room, the best service, and also entitles them to behave in any way they please.
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