Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors

by Amber Share

New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Subpar Parks Amber Share takes us around the globe to celebrate the world’s greatest wonders alongside hysterical reviews from their harshest critics. In this follow-up to Subpar Parks, which featured one-star reviews of US National Parks, Subpar Planet takes us from continent to continent with spectacular illustrations and detailed, entertaining descriptions of some of the world's most amazing places, though some have enjoyed these natural and manmade wonders more than others. . . . The Dead Sea? “Who needs burning eyes?” Who indeed? Big Ben? “Just a really big clock.” Go figure.   With Share's classic spin on visitors’ candidly cranky reviews of each location, Subpar Planet fills skeptical travelers with a wanderlust for the world's most spectacular features, including the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Great Barrier Reef, Chichen Itza, the Sahara, and many more! Equal parts hilarious and informative, Subpar Planet is perfect for seasoned globetrotters, those interested in broadening their worldly horizons, and anyone who simply wants to see the unique ways their fellow human beings interact with the world around them.

Genres: Nonfiction, Travel, Humor, History, Art, Nature, Geography

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2024

Reviews

[Lisa Vegan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used to follow Amber Share’s posts and I probably should make more of a point of it to do that again. I had read and enjoyed her book Subpar Parks: America’s Most Extraordinary National Parks and their Least Impressed Visitors and even though a few of these entries sometimes go a long way I was in the mood to read this second book just as it became free at the library and I thoroughly enjoyed reading every page cover to cover. I liked this book even more than I liked the previous one and I also gave that one 5 stars.

When I look at the art captions in artwork one by one I find many of them hilarious. I love to check in on her Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/subparparks/. She had a website too: https://ambersharedesign.com/.

This is an old article that was written by the Sierra Club because of the first book about the National Parks: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/sli....

I got a lot of laugh out loud moments and even more smiles as I read this book. It’s also a great armchair travel book.

I have a bunch of favorites. I’d like to quote most of the book but will share just a very few.

One of the ones I laughed at was from the pages for Tikal National Park, Guatemala, a major site of Mayan civilization. The review: “The ruins are not in good shape” and the author’s comment: “Here’s a fun fact some people apparently don’t know: Ruins, by definition, are usually not in amazing shape.”

Another representative example is for Cape Breton Highlands National Park. The review: “All the cool places are at the top of the mountain.“ Her comment “Hold up – you’re telling me I have to drive a scenic road all the way to the top of the mountain to see the breathtaking views from the top of the mountain? Hard pass.”

I like the entry for Loch Ness: The intro is “A lake best known for logs people think are a glimpse of a giant creature” and the review is “Just a lake” and the author’s response is “A little tip that might’ve helped you out a whole lot: Loch is a Scottish Gaelic, Scots, and Irish word meaning… lake.”

This one on the Matterhorn: “the mountain was much smaller than depicted.“ “I’m curious about what kind of depiction this person could’ve seen that a 14,672-foot mountain simply could not live up to in person.” And later: “there is also a 1:100th-scale replica at the Matterhorn in Disneyland, sitting at 147 feet tall, which made its debut there in 1959. Perhaps the reviewer accidentally visited that one?“

One more: Sahara: “The disappointment knew no bounds.“ “Picture this: a sea of sand stretching as far as the eye can see, and the only thing more boundless than the desert in front of you is the absolute disappointment you feel.“

This is both an entertaining and an informative book. I learned a lot about the world’s national parks and other natural sites and also about human made monuments and other objects/structures/things. There is a lot more detail in the text than just the blurbs. There is a lot of information about each place. She has an amusing way with words and is able to also educate.

I love the art. The picture for each place is wonderful and I love the various pictorial maps and the various other pictures. (I am such a huge fan of the art I feel as though a couple of sentences here isn’t enough as I could write a review just about the art, but I’m not going to do that. I’ll just add that the art makes the book.) Both the art and the text are wonderful but without the art the book wouldn’t be anywhere as good as it is.

This book makes me wish I I had traveled much more when I was younger and fitter and when it was often much less expensive to go to many of these places.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Some Background and Perspective
The Americas
Europe
Africa
Asia
Oceania
How to Have an Absolutely Terrible Time Traveling

That last section is reason enough to read the book. It has great advice for anyone traveling anywhere away from their home area.

This author-illustrator’s two books are ones I’d like to own to occasionally dip into and to share with others. This was a perfect book to read for my last book of 2024. They’re brilliant books and would make great gift books for the right readers.

[Jeanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun book with gorgeous art work.

[January · Rating 5 out of 5]

Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors by Amber Share (2024)
Subpar Series
xvi+237-page (253) Kindle Ebook story pages ix-224

Genre: Nonfiction, Travel, Humor, Epistolary, Landscapes, Parks and Campgrounds, Graphic Novels

Featuring: Landscape, Animal, and Vegetation Paintings; Map of the Work, Table of Contents, Introduction: Some Background and Perspective, Photos to Paintings, Artist, Bad Reviews, Maps, Historical Background, Park Features and Stats, Wildlife, Reviews, Quotes, History of the Sites, The Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Wonders of the World, Waterfalls, Mountains, Museums, Art
How to Have an Absolutely Terrible Time Traveling, About the Author, Illustrations and Travel Notes [lines for you to fill in]

Rating as a movie: PG/PG-13 for adult language, just a couple.

Books and Authors mentioned: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter #6, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Cinderella by Charles Perrault, Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault, Dune by Frank Herbert, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Raiders of the Lost Ark by Lawrence Kasdan

Memorable Quotes: As the old joke goes…“Why are the pyramids in Egypt? Because they were too big to transport to the British Museum.” The British Museum has a page on its website called “Contested Objects from the Collection,” with statements about its refusal to return certain artifacts, because the museum has such a large number of artifacts, artworks, and even human remains that have come from other cultures. The most notable are probably the marbles from the Parthenon, which were removed from the original site in the 1800s and have not been returned, even though Greece has been asking for them to be returned since they gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832, claiming that the agreement that allowed them to be removed in the first place was done under Ottoman occupation and thus is not valid. The first formal request for the marbles to be returned was in 1983, and there are currently ongoing secret conversations between Greece and the British Museum about potential paths to returning the marbles. The official responses to these kinds of requests seem to essentially amount to “We think we’re more qualified to care for these items than the cultures they originally came from” or “The way we acquired it might sound barbaric but was technically legal when we did it” and often read like they’re trying to sugarcoat the truth of how they came to possess so many of these artifacts. Of course, the British Museum is just one example, and there are artifacts and works of art in museums around the world that were brought to those places under a variety of dubious circumstances, and many cultures that are actively seeking the repatriation of these important pieces of their history. This is a complicated topic that raises a lot of questions, like: What if the culture or country the artifact originally came from no longer exists? Or what if the rightful owners don’t have the means and infrastructure to properly preserve it? I definitely don’t have the right answer for how we move forward from the long-standing history of looting, pillaging, and theft (that’s way above my pay grade!), but it’s something to be aware of as you travel and visit sites that are missing these pieces, or the museums that house them. Imagine being from these countries and having to travel to an entirely different part of the world to see an artifact from your ancestry, with a lovely plaque next to it detailing precisely how it was taken from your people. It’s one of numerous pieces of the puzzle we need to navigate as we reckon with the many harms colonization and war have perpetuated over millennia. Which makes for an excellent transition into…

On October 24, 1901, Annie Edson Taylor, a schoolteacher, became the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell the tale—on her sixty-third birthday! She was strapped into a custom harness inside a wooden pickle barrel lined with cushions to help protect her. Her story inspired quite a few copycats, with fifteen people attempting the plunge between 1901 and 1995 (only ten of whom survived). Today, going over the falls is illegal—if you survive, you’ll face charges and fines.

Hold up—you’re telling me I have to drive a scenic road all the way to the top of the mountain to see the breathtaking views from the top of the mountain? Hard pass.

The purpose of Stonehenge has been debated, but recently, a reigning theory has been that the site served as a solar calendar. The thirty stones that formed the outer circle (today, only seventeen remain) each represent a day within a thirty-day month. Twelve months create a 360-day year (a now missing stone may have been used to mark the twelve months), and the five trilithons at the center represent epagomenal days (a fancy word for days that fall outside of a regular month) to bring the count to 365. It’s possible the calendar even accounted for leap years, represented by four stones outside the circle (only two remain today). This is reminiscent of similar calendars used in ancient Egypt and eastern Mediterranean cultures, and the builders of Stonehenge were possibly influenced by them.

JUST A REALLY BIG CLOCK This review isn’t even technically true, because Big Ben is actually a bell, not the clock… Big Ben is a massive bell in the clock tower at the end of the Palace of Westminster in London, but these days, the name is usually used to refer to the clock and tower as well. The tower was originally called the Clock Tower (very creative), but it was renamed Elizabeth Tower to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. There are five bells in the tower, with Big Ben being the largest. (It also held the title of the largest bell in the entire United Kingdom for more than twenty years!) The bell weighs in at a mind-boggling 15.1 tons, and its chimes can be heard from up to five miles away. The clock was the largest and most accurate four-faced chiming clock when it was completed in 1859. It still uses its original Victorian mechanisms today and remains one of the most accurate clocks in the world (rarely off by more than a second). In 1987, the clock tower was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it’s an instantly recognizable British icon. Maybe seeing it in so many establishing shots in television and movies makes it feel larger than life, leading to inevitable disappointment when finally seeing it in person (although having seen it in person a few times myself, I can’t relate—it is just a clock, but a pretty awesome one).

CASTLE GERMANY A nineteenth-century Bavarian castle in the foothills of the Alps NOT IMPRESSIVE OR INSPIRING AT ALL I can’t help but read reviews like this one sarcastically. So unimpressive, it became the muse for more than one Disney castle. But I guess that kind of reputation is tough to live up to—never meet your heroes?

There is also a 1:100th-scale replica of the Matterhorn in Disneyland, sitting at 147 feet tall, which made its debut there in 1959. Perhaps the reviewer accidentally visited that one?

The Matterhorn formed between fifty and one hundred million years ago. According to geologists, the gneiss rock that makes up the top of the mountain came from the African continental plate as it collided with the Laurasian (European) plate, coming to rest atop the European sediment that makes up the rest of the mountain. So, technically, the summit of Western Europe’s twelfth-highest peak is actually African!

The Colosseum, originally called the Flavian Amphitheater, is one of the most iconic structures in Rome. It took eight years to build (between AD 72 and AD 80) and has stood for more than 1,900 years. It’s said that it became known as the Colosseum because a massive hundred-foot bronze statue that portrayed Emperor Nero, known as the Colossus of Nero, was positioned next to the amphitheater. The amphitheater became known as the Colosseum because of the proximity.

While you might assume modern coliseums would dwarf the Colosseum, it holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest amphitheater.

The Tower of Pisa (also called the Leaning Tower of Pisa, for obvious reasons) is the bell tower of Pisa Cathedral, and one of three structures in Pisa’s Cathedral Square—the cathedral and Pisa Baptistery are the other two. It was originally intended as a place to show off all the treasures that had been brought back after the government ransacked Palermo in 1063, so it seems fitting karma that the tower didn’t go quite as planned. Hubris, thy name is Pisa. It’s famous for its almost 4-degree lean, the result of soft ground that could not properly support the weight of the tower. It began to lean while it was still under construction, by the time the builders were only on the third story, and worsened throughout construction! Given that the name “Pisa” comes from a Greek word for “marshy land,” you’d think somebody might have realized the land could pose problems, but hindsight is twenty-twenty, I guess. By 1990, the lean had further sunk to 5.5 degrees.

THE UGLIEST BEACH This beach frequently makes the list of most beautiful beaches around the world, so maybe this review was just an attempt at crowd control. Nestled on La Digue, one of the principal islands of Seychelles, Anse Source d’Argent is one of the most popular beaches in the world.

THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE Yes, my local zoo also spans nearly four million acres and is home to 4,000 lions, 1,000 leopards, and 550 cheetahs, and regularly has millions of animals migrating through it. Serengeti National Park stretches across 5,600 square miles in Tanzania.

▶ ISRAEL | JORDAN | PALESTINE ◀ The lowest-elevation body of water on Earth, with water nine times saltier than the oceans WHO NEEDS BURNING EYES Sounds like visiting the Dead Sea was not a particularly eye-opening experience for this person. Tucked between Jordan, Israel, and Palestine, the Dead Sea is a natural marvel, with striking desert landscapes and dramatic salt formations. The water here is so concentrated with salt and minerals that swimming in it is more like floating effortlessly in a sensory deprivation tank. And let’s not forget the mesmerizing scenery surrounding the Dead Sea—though if your eyes are stinging from a saltwater mishap, you might miss it.

Stretching more than thirteen thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is no ordinary pile of bricks—it’s the longest pile of bricks in the world.

The wall may not have the sleekness of modern architecture, but its grandeur and cultural significance are unrivaled. As far as the basic function of walls goes, though, it’s probably the least effective wall in history—built to keep people out, it manages to attract ten million visitors to China every year.

My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌍🌎🌏🏔⛰️🌋🗻🏞🌊🌺🏰🕌

My thoughts: 🔖Page 30 [46] of 237/253 PACIFIC RIM ▶ CANADA (BRITISH COLUMBIA)◀ IF YOU LIKE WALKING ON AN ALMOST ENDLESS BEACH THIS IS THE PLACE- The opening was funny, some of the complaints are ridiculously humorous but the actual descriptions are lacking compared to the last book.
🔖42 [58] NATIONAL PARK ▶ CANADA (QUEBEC) ◀ NOT PARTICULARLY BEAUTIFUL - Okay this has gotten better, because of the waterfalls.

This was pretty good she doesn't go into details as to how the book is made, as she does in the previous book, she visits these places, takes photos then paints them for the book, but she does get straight to it and includes beautiful painting of animal and flowers, as well as a few lists that were quite enjoyable. I will be reading Postcards hopefully before the year is out.

Recommend to others: Yes, I feel like I just got back from a great vacation.

Subpar Series

Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors (2021)

Subpar Parks Postcards: Celebrating America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors (2022)

Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors (2024)

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cool artwork, fun sense of humor, and quickly informative about cool places around the world.

[Leslie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book almost killed me. Seriously, don't drink while reading it. And if your friends and family members get annoyed by you guffawing and reading aloud to them, you should read while alone. This was a great follow-up to "Subpar Parks" and I loved the breaks in the book where locations were compared to one another using, shall we say "unusual" comparison like the Tower of Pisa to the average height of a one-star male reviewer and Christ the Redeemer statue to 33 stretched out cats. :D Highly entertaining book!

P.S. I also appreciated the forward that had an insightful and sensitive perspective on Indigenous people and contested places. <3

[Shelleyrae at Book'd Out · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chosen to meet the Travel category of the Nonfiction Reader Challenge, I was looking forward to visiting various landmarks around the world, and being entertained by the incomprehension of some of its visitors, in Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors by Amber Share.

I certainly enjoyed my tour of nearly one hundred spectacular locations around globe. Share devotes about a page of text to each, which includes a personable description of the site and often a brief explanation of its historical or cultural significance. In her introduction she makes it clear that she hasn’t visited all the places listed and has relied on research for what she presents.

On the facing page is a graphic, poster like illustration of the site drawn by the author, emblazoned with a remark that Share sourced from an online 1 star review. The art is beautiful, but this is where I think Subpar Planet doesn’t quite deliver on what I expected. Yes, each comment often made me smile, like the criticism of the Eiffel Tower as ‘A big hunk of steel’ or the Matterhorn dismissed as ‘Much smaller than depicted’, as did Share’s riposte’s, but I had thought there would be perhaps a collection of quotes rather than a single 3-7 word statement.

Share’s tongue in cheek tips on ‘How to have an absolutely terrible traveling’ offer a humorous conclusion to the travel guide, and I think this book would be a fun gift for the reluctant traveler in your life.

[Cara Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like Share’s first book, I read this book on a road trip with my dad. These are super fun books to read on a road trip because each page stands on its own and you can start planning more trips when you find somewhere you want to go!

[Brianna Kinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh how I would love to visit some of these places.

[Deb · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many places around the world i was not familiar with. It really makes me wish I could visit many of them!

[Maggie Carr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfectly satirical sequel.

[Cindy Huskey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amber Share’s Subpar Planet proves one thing beyond a doubt: no matter how breathtaking, historic, or once-in-a-lifetime a destination may be, someone out there will find a way to complain about it. The Taj Mahal? “It’s just a big building.” Big Ben? “Just a really big clock.” The Dead Sea? “Who needs burning eyes?” Apparently not the reviewer, who seems to have missed the whole floating effortlessly on salty water bit.

The illustrations are, as expected, gorgeous—Share could make a parking lot look like a UNESCO World Heritage Site if she wanted to. And the reviews? Equal parts depressing and hilarious. It’s a beautiful reminder that humans are both the planet’s greatest marvel and its most baffling disappointment.

Why four stars instead of five? Because after a while, the formula starts to feel predictable: breathtaking landmark + cranky person with internet access = comedy. It’s still funny, but best consumed in bite-sized doses—like a vacation slideshow where the pictures are stunning, but your uncle keeps chiming in with “meh.”

Still, Subpar Planet delivers on its promise: it will make you laugh, make you appreciate the absurdity of people, and maybe even inspire you to see the world’s wonders yourself… preferably without leaving a review that says, “Eiffel Tower—too pointy.”

[Brit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like Amber Share's first book, I would give Share's Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors 3.5 stars. Since I cannot, I am rounding up to 4 stars. Amber Share is an illustrator and graphic designer who loves traveling. In this book, she lists various national parks and monuments from around the world. Share also notes the Unesco World Heritage Sites and the New 7 Wonders of the World (Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal, Petra, Colosseum, Christ the Redeemer, Chichen Itza, and Machu Picchu). She excludes the United States since the U.S. National Park system was the subject of her first book. She provides some historical/travel guide information for visiting and highlights a one star review that individuals have left for the park/monument. She also illustrates each park and hand letters the one star review.

My only criticism is that I would have liked more 1 star reviews to be included for each park. She only lists one for each park.

Some of my favorite one star reviews that Share illustrates are the following:

"Much ado about Nothing" - Niagara Falls (38-39)
"Just Some Cliffs" - Cliffs of Moher (56-57)
"It's a Rock, So What" - Rock of Gibraltar (72-73)
"Only Go If You Really Care About Art" - Louvre Museum (76-77)
"Not Impressive or Inspiring at All" - Neuschwanstein Castle (84-85)
"The Mountain Was Much Smaller Than Depicted" - Switzerland (92-93)
"I Came. I Saw. I Left." - Colosseum (94-95)
"You'll Just See Some Ruins" - Acropolis of Athens (104-105)
"Lots of Animals But That Is All" - Kruger NP (112-113)
"It Was Literally Simply Water and Falls" - Mosi-Oa-Tunya Falls (122-123)
"You Can't Go Off Road to Search For Animals" - Ngorongoro Conservation Area (128-129)
"If You're Into Looking at Aged Rubble and Stacked Bricks, Get On It" - Angkor Wat (172-173)
"Average Lights on a Christmas Tree Is More Thrilling" - Te Ana-Au (214-215)

This is a fun and very easy to read book. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys traveling, wants a good laugh, and or enjoyed her first book.

[Jillian Collins · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the humor in this book. It was pretty similar to the first one except the landmarks were everywhere besides the United States. I learned about some cool new places and about UNESCO. It makes me want to go travel.

[Sesana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gorgeous art, with an interesting mix of mostly natural wonders that will make your bucket list longer.

[Tina Culbertson · Rating 3 out of 5]

 This book uses the unique concept of gathering one star reviews of amazing travel destinations and combining it with historical info.  Some reviews such as "Only go if you like art" referring to The Louvre leave you shaking your head.  I mean...duh.

 Educational and entertaining plus the armchair travel I crave.  That's a win-win-win for me! That said, I give it 3.5 stars.  

The layout of the book covers the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania with details about the history of the landmarks and wonders of the world.

The comment on the left side of the page is the one star review.  Might have been nice to have a more detailed review but what do you expect from someone who states Stonehenge is just a field of random stones or the sunrise over Mt Fuji was nothing spectacular. No pleasing some people.

The opposite page tells some history of the visited site and tips on best times to visit.  It's amusing but don't expect true photos of the venues. 

Tags are Nonfiction, Nature, Travel, Humor, Geography and History.

 Linking up with Shelleyrae at Book'd Out for the 2026 Nonfiction Reading Challenge. Category: Humor

[Ammar I. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my first time making a review here on Goodreads. I wanted to try something different and I'm not good at making opinions/reviews on most things, so I'll try.

This is the first book I have finished in 2025 and it's a nonfiction book. So Subpar Planet is basically a travel book that talks about landmarks from around the world and the author Amber Share, who is a graphic designer and travels a lot, draws the landmarks and adds anonymous one-star reviews on said art of the landmark mentioned. Each section is based on the continent and the landmarks they are in with a few informational chapters added. Amber Share also wrote Subpar Parks (it's also on my to-read list) which has the same concept except it's about US national parks.

I randomly chose the Subpar Planet one because I love learning about the world and its landmarks and because I use a random spinning wheel website to choose which book to read after I finish one. I like traveling even though I'm an indoor person and I have been reading recently about travel and I have a few travel books on my to-read list while also having some countries in mind to go to.

I found myself bored at the South American section and some of the European landmarks were interesting. I always find myself interested in African, Asian, and Australian landmarks and those sections had me interested in them. And it's funny that people would go to these places and have such mediocrity in their minds to give one-star reviews online. After the book, there is a chapter that talks about how to improve on traveling so you don't have to give a one-star review, like learning about the country, its culture, language, people, etc before going there or having an open mind on things or making a few mistakes and making the best on your travels.

I have to give this book 4 stars because I really was interested in reading about the landmarks and the hilarity of the one-star reviews. Imagine the people who wrote those reviews reading this book and they said "Hey, that's my review. I wrote that. Uh oh."

[Bookewyfe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. The author is an artist who had the idea to write a book centering around real people leaving shitty reviews online of extraordinary places. I found myself laughing on every page, as I read the ‘review’, educational and historical bits, whilst googling images of each place.

You have to wonder, were these people serious? Are they that miserable? If you know there’s something you don’t want to experience, why go? Why set your standards to those of everyone else? Why not just do you? These places are beautiful and full of history, amazing science, cultural value. Many of us do not have the privilege it takes to be able to travel and experience them.

Sure, there are places in the book I don’t feel the desire to go—desert areas are too dry, hot, sandy for me…so I can respect these places from photos, books, documentaries. I wouldn’t go there and leave a shitty review. I’d go to the places I feel drawn to, and experience everything I possibly could there, savoring the moment, taking it all in. But we all know that there will always be ‘that person’ who will always find something to complain about. This book allows us to laugh at said person(s). I like the art, the humor, and the educational content. The author has an Instagram account and another book, ‘Subpar Parks’…postcards are also available!

Last note of things I liked about this book: some places had a mention of an etiological myth associated with them (story of how a landscape originated according to an event or deity/entity). The Salt Flats of Bolivia have a lovely myth like this.

Link to IG account to follow: https://www.instagram.com/subparparks...

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[Evangeline · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading about the wide variety of tourist attractions included in this book, some of which I had never heard of before. However, it was not as funny as I had hoped it would be. Each destination includes a quote from an online 1 star review, and whilst some were hilariously ridiculous - I got a good cackle from “the ruins are not in good shape” and the author’s riposte to this - more often than not they were very short and just a variation of “nothing special”. Longer silly quotes would have added to the fun. And I may be in the minority here, but I was disappointed in the artwork. It was overly-simplistic with a lack of detail and didn’t do justice to many of the world’s magnificent wonders. I did appreciate some of the author’s thoughtful advice though, like the afterword ‘how to have an absolutely terrible time travelling’.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun and low-commitment book for arm-chair travelling. It's not necessary to have read Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors; this is a great book for coffee tables or offices, as it works just fine to read one or two entries, or a chapter or two, alone or at a time.

It required me to read much slower than usual, but I could make my brain give this to me in Sir David Attenborough's voice, and the style of writing fits pretty well with how he would read.

[Jane Healy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a wonderful way to learn about world landmarks and natural features with good humor, stylish art, and more than a little snark. Author Share has chosen major world landmarks, many of them UNESCO World Heritage Sites, looked at bad reviews, created a travel poster, and written her own commentary of the place. In two pages, readers can learn a lot and make their own travel plans to see if the place lives down to the bad review! One example: Niagara Falls: "Much Ado About Nothing." Share's opening comment: "I guess the falls mist the mark for this person." A fun book for older kids and adults.

[Vicki Bahls · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read--Picked up at library today. One side with picture would give a disappointed negative review of a most celebrated landmark. The other page would then give short history of the place. I paged through and read every review, but looked mainly at history of places I have been to. Very informative. My favorite were "Don't go to the Louvre, unless you like art!" DUH!!!! and Loch Ness was just a lake!--Yes, that's what LOCH means in Scottish. At end she had tips for what to do for an absolutely horrible vacation. These negative reviews had to be from people who did not plan or research anything ahead I enjoyed it. And the art work is fantastic.

[Kelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I borrowed this on my Kindle and I believe this is an instance where having the physical book in hand would have been preferable! The artwork Share creates by juxtaposing her rendering of a park/landmark with the words from a one-star review of the place is pitch-perfect. I enjoyed learning about different landmarks and locations around the globe, but this was definitely not a book that was meant to be read cover-to-cover. I would rather have had a copy that I could pick up and put down at my leisure. That's my fault, not the book's! While the information about the various locations was interesting, I would have been equally entertained by the images and a shorter explanation of each place.

[Ellen Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 - I enjoyed this as a light read! Ilearned about places I’d never heard of and even interesting tidbits about places I *had* heard of.
It covers parks from all parts of the world, and the reviews are genuinely funny. I mean who the fuck writes “the ruins were not in good shape” and can’t see how stupid that is? Or goes to the cliffs of Moher and says “just some cliffs”? Mind boggling.
Bonus points for the inclusion of indigenous knowledge and culture as well.

[Ella · Rating 1 out of 5]

Who is this FOR!? The art’s not that great, but it’s clearly for adults who find online reviews funny. The text feels like something for 12 year olds. Idk, I probably would have found it funny when I was ten, but now I’m just slightly baffled and maybe smiling a little, but certainly not guffawing. I also haven’t learned anything.

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't actually read all the entries in the book but I did look at all the illustrations. I read some of the introductory sections and some of the entries. I don't see this as a book that should be read cover-to-cover but maybe read about the landmarks that you might be going to visit.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a fun book to read! I like the short, funny information about places to see around the world. The author hits on so many different places with a bit about each place (park, national monument, tourist attraction) including a phrase from an actual 1-star review. Easy to read whenever, wherever.

[Kirsti · Rating 4 out of 5]

I came for the gorgeous artwork and ridiculous reviews, but I stayed for the chipper commentary and sensible advice (read up on what you're about to see, be respectful of the local people and cultures, don't rush through everything, understand that things will sometimes go wrong).

[Kellylynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gorgeous artwork and fun discussions of places around the world with the silly blurbs from random reviews. Gave me a list of a few that I would really like to go see.

I won this in one of the giveaways.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

One mans trash is another's treasure. This is a series of one star reviews of some of the wonders of the world, with beautiful graphics and acerbic comments.

Delightful.

Easy to pick up and read for a minute or an hour.

I borrowed a copy from the public library.