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Title: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0-06-092008-4 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.47 (188 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Definitely laugh out loud reading
Comment: I read this book several years ago...this was my first of many Bill Bryson books in fact. I was on a flight from Ireland to the USA, sitting in the middle of the plane, next to a kindly American Catholic Priest from Rhode Island, and two middle-aged American women. I giggled and laughed out loud so many times that they all kept asking me 'Why...What...' I attempted to read to them from the book. I'm not sure that they found the humour as funny as I did...and I kept giggling as I read. I think this book is well worth a read. I am an American living in Ireland for 10+ years...and it IS healthy to have a laugh about our great, quirky, interesting and mundane all at the same time, country!
Rating: 5
Summary: A great travelogue of small town USA.
Comment: This book is a collection of stories about Bryson's trip around the country in search for the perfect small town, which calls "Amalgam". It begins with a hilarious take on the Midwest (most notably Iowa, his home State) and stories from the family vacations of his youth. It is a travel book, and not intended as great literature, but it is truly laugh out loud funny. It is, I believe, a fair indictment of certain aspects of out society as reflected in the author's travels. A little caustic (think on the road with David Letterman), but really, really funny.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Lost Continent
Comment: A boring trip written by a fat, coarse author. I'm thankful I've traveled many of the states that make up the USA without Bryson's help. It is true that many people in the United States regret the demise of the Americana of our cities and towns, but his portrayal was oftentimes unfair or simply incorrect. Too many drinks do an eye blear. Under those circumstances it might have been better for us and Mr. Bryson had he just forgotten this entire trip. Thank goodness, he writes more humorously and intellectually and less self-centeredly in his later years.
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Title: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0380713802 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson ISBN: 076790382X Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0380727501 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0767902521 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0767903862 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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