A very funny perspective. It must be hard to be both a native and an outsider. Fortunately, Bryson is funny as hell, so the difficulty of it all is related in a way, that might make you laugh out loud, if you're a laughing out loud sort of person.Library copy
Great collection of columns about life in America. As always, Bill Bryson makes me laugh out loud by describing the hilariousness of stupidity you can come across in basically the every day life. It took me quite a while to finish it, but unlike the nagging feeling I get with other books when they t...
One tip: this is not a book to read in an airport. Or, in fact, anywhere in public. People tend to give you strange looks when you sit with your shoulders shaking and tears streaming down your face as you try desperately not to laugh out loud like a madwoman.Or perhaps that's just me.Anyway, Notes f...
3.75 stars, but since it's Bryson, I'll give it 4 stars here on GR.Really liked this, it's funny, albeit not every story is equally well-written :) It's very similar to many of his considerations in his first book [b:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America|26|The Lost Continent Travels in...
I think I'm done with Bryson after this. Inexplicably hostile to libraries and library-users, this book is fatally dated though it does have the odd charming turn of phrase. Bryson's bumbling, vaguely incompetent persona isn't half so cute as he thinks it is. And he cast aspersions upon the writing ...
If you like reading brief, amusing but unrelated snippets about the oddities of life, this may be the book for you. There’s nothing very original in it, but some readers no doubt enjoy the empathy of saying “Oh, I’ve always thought that too”.It’s a collection of short articles written for a weekly B...
I read his "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and absolutely loved it. Good thing I read it first because I never would have read anything else after this collection of whiny short columns. Actually, he "whinges" as the Brits would say. The first half of the book has a number of funny and cute ...
I read his "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and absolutely loved it. Good thing I read it first because I never would have read anything else after this collection of whiny short columns. Actually, he "whinges" as the Brits would say. The first half of the book has a number of funny and cute ...
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