Hotel Pastis
A Novel of Provence

This was Mayle's first novel from which he draws much from his own life as an advertising executive, a love for good food & wine and spending time in Provence. The description of the countryside bursts through the pages and makes anyone interested in traveling put the place on their bucket list. Of......more

RIP Peter Mayle! Perhaps his books, including Hotel Pastis, are not necessary masterpieces, but all of them are soft and smooth like a spring breeze. His heroes are warm and gentle, even the so called-villains are benign ones, it's less important that the bank robbery is surrealistic, as is Boone's k......more

I didn't love this book. I didn't hate it either. I was a bit indifferent overall. I liked the story, but it wasn't a very deep story at all. Some of the characters and tiny little side stories just seemed like they were added after the fact, and had nothing to do with the story as a whole. I did li......more

Not my normal read. It was okay, but not much of a plot. Just a whole bunch of my being jealous at the extravagant lifestyles of the rich and famous. Oh those poor dears. What horrific lives those poor, mistreated Madison Ave ad execs lead in the hills of Provence upon semiretirement. It's just brut......more

Another Mayle hit! Maybe I'm a little biased being French, with family in Provence, but Mayle's work always puts a smile on my face. I've seen his characters, and enjoyed the same quirks in the dialect and attitude of Provence. I wish Hotel Pastis was a real place, and that I could go there right no......more