BOOKS: Whether a tourist chooses Orange County...
BOOKS: Whether a tourist chooses Orange County this summer could depend on which guidebook he buys. . . . “Los Angeles Access” describes the county as “an earthly paradise of temperate climate, a shoreline of alternating smooth sandy beaches with majestic rocky promontories, green canyons, rolling hills and a feeling of suspended time.” . . . But the “Let’s Go” book blasts the county as “an immense grid” filled with “cookie-cutter copies: gas stations on every corner, supermarkets on every block, and other necessities of life provided at more malls, plazas, squares, centers and markets than any real city could handle.”
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