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![]() No current Talk conversations about this book. I enjoyed this book. He made some interesting obsetvations and it was an amusing read. If you are looking for a quick, funny read I would recommend it. ( ![]() Another winner from Bill Bryson. This book is a bit dated now, but for the most part that only adds to the hilarity. Bryson is such a great story teller. A collection of columns Bryson wrote for a British paper on living in the US after moving back to the states from the UK 20 years after leaving. Some laugh-aloud moments and several witty bits, but overall it's not my favorite of Bryson's work. Read straight through, there's just a little too much grousing for my tastes, and it makes Bryson seem more sanctimonious than I hope he actually is. A little too Andy Rooney for me.
You can be a Bryson fan -- and I am, really -- and still think that these particular columns might best have been left to their original foreign audience. People who have lived in the United States more recently than the mid-1970's have already recovered from their astonishment that there is a breakfast cereal called Count Chocula. Is contained in
Bryson recalls his return to the United States after twenty years in England. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.92 — History and Geography North America United States 1901- Eisenhower Through Clinton AdministrationsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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