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 enlarge | Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 076790382X
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.92
EAN: 9780767903820
ASIN: 076790382X
Publication Date: June 6, 2000
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It's great to laugh at yourself if you are living in America October 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the 2nd book I have read by Bill Bryson. I enjoyed it! I admire someone who can take normal life in America and write with such humor. I found myself giggling every few paragraphs. Such talent this writer has.
Basically this book is filled with essays that are organized by chapters. He writes about all kinds of things about America, after moving to New Hampshire after living in Britain for 20 years. He writes about baseball, shopping, lawyers, over-the-counter medicine, drive-inn movies, computers, waste, airplanes and taxes among countless other things that sets America apart from other countries. The thing I love about Bryson's writing is, I learn something as I laugh thru the pages. His outlook on things is sometimes like reading my mind and putting it on paper. I highly recommend these books and look forward to reading others by this author.
 Too much America bashing... September 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not his best work. He is getting a bit too left leaning but still funny at times.
Laugh out loud funny September 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In 1995, Bill Bryson returned to live in the United States after living in England for 20 years. A British newspaper asked him to write a weekly column about America and I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away is a compilation of those columns. His observations of America and family life are laugh out loud funny. I read many of them to my husband. He wrote these lines about his oldest child going off to college and they hit close to home for us:
"Once they leave for college they never really come back," a neighbor who has lost two of her own in this way told us wistfully the other day.
"This isn't what I wanted to hear. I wanted to hear that they come back a lot, only this time they hang up their clothes, admire you for your intelligence and wit, and no longer have a hankering to sink diamond studs into various odd holes in their heads. But the neighbor was right. He is gone. There is an emptiness in the house that proves it."
The columns are short and each one is an individual read making this book easy to read when you have a lot going on.
Very Enjoyable with Only a Few Hiccups July 16, 2008
Mr. Bryson's half-hearted curmudgeonly approach to life makes for another enjoyable read by this author. He covers a wide array of society's peculiar habits with a mixture of surliness and confusion. The only editorials that were creative but somewhat ponderous were his columns dealing with his computer. With the exception of just those few pieces, I enjoyed his book. Mr. Bryson is a funny, insightful writer who is a great remedy for a case of the blues.
 funny...and insightful July 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
nothing like looking at the US from the eyes of a stranger. What a beautiful perspective. There were many times I was laughing out loud when I read this book. Also a great gift for those who are travelers. you will not be disappointed.
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