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Joe Bennett
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (27 May 2010)
  • ISBN-10: 1847376746
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847376749
  • Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 23.5 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 395,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years. How? And can it go on? Has it sold itself to the corporate dollar? Is it anything more than a mall in the desert? Will the sands return? Joe Bennett goes to find out.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Bill Larkworthy, 1 Sep 2010
This review is from: Hello Dubai: Skiing, Sand and Shopping in the World's Weirdest City (Paperback)
Despite the author being carried away from time to time by his own acerbic wit I read Joe Bennett's book on Dubai with a great deal of pleasure. I lived in Dubai for fifteen years from 1986 so I knew the good times so full of optimism, and I glimpsed the coming bad times. When I left the rot, Joe describes so well, had set in. In contrast to my fifteen years I suspect that Joe spent fifteen days charging around Dubai and the UAE armed with notebook, pencil and his acute powers of observation. It's a very good read which swings along at a good pace but he makes a few howlers like calling the Musandam peninsula the Mussulman peninsula, groper fish (grouper the alternative name sounds better) are called hamour in the Gulf and the flash of a blue bird's wings were more likely those of an Indian Roller than a Kingfisher.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Where's the humour?, 18 Oct 2011
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I love reading Joe Bennett and discovered him while out in New Zealand. His book "A Land of Two Halves" was a great read for me as I discovered the country where he now lives. Joe's style is wonderful and refreshing and, as usual, you learn much about Joe himself as you do about the place. Its a personal look at a country. Unfortunately, this is not his best and for the same reasons that all his travel books since "A Land..." have let me down. My reason is simple. Joe is a funny guy. A land of two Halves was laugh-out-loud funny. Joe seems to have forgotten to have a giggle while he writes. It was the humour that made me like Joe's travel writing and it has all but gone in this book. Such a shame. All his other writing qualities remain (hence a 3/5) but the humour value is just too important to drop, I think.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another brilliant book from Bennett, 16 Feb 2011
This review is from: Hello Dubai: Skiing, Sand and Shopping in the World's Weirdest City (Paperback)
I have read most of Joe Bennetts books and this is up there with the rest. A fantastic read on a curious 'new' world.
Great insight in to the way Dubai works and funny throughout.
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