Books like Acquired Tastes

Although Robin Sachs could make reading the phone book sound interesting and Peter Mayle's dry sense of humor is always amusing, these essays originally printed in Esquire and published in compilation in 1992 is suprisingly out of date. Mayle pokes fun at the excesses of life but after what's been happening in the couple of decades, those things just don't seem as funny. There were certain chapters that were definitely amusing and the food chapters made me wish I had more money. Having been written for Esquire these essays are all geared toward men, cigar smoking and other male dominated activities but women will still find them mildly amusing. If it weren't for Robin Sachs, you could give this a miss entirely but Sachs evokes Mayle so well that you do want to be him, if only for a few weeks at the Connaught.