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Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson
Notes from a Big Country
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After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, “it was clear my people needed me”). They were... show more
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, “it was clear my people needed me”). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item.

Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I’m a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man’s attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780552997867 (0552997862)
Publisher: Black Swan
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
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Marinebuchbinder
Marinebuchbinder rated it
4.0 USA für alle
Eine warme Empfehlung von meiner lieben Leonie. Ich bekam schon kleine Einblicke durch Sprachnachrichten von ihr. Sehr unterhaltsam. Das Buch ist eine Sammlung der Kolumne von Bill Bryson und zeigt die wundersame Welt der USA mit all ihren Eigenheiten und Besonderheiten. Besonders witzig, da Mister...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
5.0 I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson
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
Inked Brownies
Inked Brownies rated it
4.0 Notes from a Big Country
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...
Bloodorange
Bloodorange rated it
3.0 I'm a Stranger Here Myself
My least favourite (but still enjoyable) Bryson to date - I'm not sure I like him in this format (newspaper columns).
The English Student
The English Student rated it
4.0 Notes From a Big Country - Bill Bryson
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...
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