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	• I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away Bill Bryson Broadway, 2000 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 220 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very nice, pleasant read. So true...

Bill Bryson makes excellent observations about the American culture and lifestyle. As a foreigner who studied and worked in the USA for a few years I can pretty much share the author's views on life in this country. A must-read for a person coming to live in America for an extended period of time. The book is also very witty and hilarious at times.

Careful - new title for an "old" book

If you have read "Notes from a big country", this is the same book with a different title (American version, while Notes is the British version), so be careful. I fell for it. But otherwise, Bill Bryson is as hilarious as ever, and the book is great fun and highly entertaining. The insights into daily US life are very telling and also social history. Some things make you think, but they all make you laugh, too. Nobody need be offended, but everybody should be delighted!

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Hilarious

Bill Bryson is a great travel writer. His descriptions are evocative and his prose is gut-wrenchingly funny. In fact, I don't read his books in public because I usually wind up crying from laughter. This one, the first of his books that I read, is a classic. Bryson details his readjustment to American culture after 20 years in England, and offers a number of hilarious insights about life in both countries - and about his unfailing ability to poke fun at any situation. Because it's basically a collection of short (2-4 page) newspaper columns, it's particularly easy to read. You can also take a break without losing the narrative flow - there really isn't one. When you're done with this one, hopefully having decided you love Bill Bryson as much as I do, move on to two of his best works: A Walk in the Woods, about his adventures on the Appalachian Trial, and In a Sunburned Country, about the wilds of Australia.

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extremely entertaining

I bought this book while browing because (1) I had read and loved In a Sunburned Country, and (2) because I spent the first 18 years of my life as an American living overseas. I moved permanently back to the U.S. several months ago, and I was interested to see another American's perspectives on being here.

The book was highly entertaining. Many of Bryson's observations made me laugh out loud. My parents also enjoyed the book. Despite the fact that Bryson's topics were a little more trite than what I had been expecting, I thoroughly enjoyed his hilarious style of writing. I would definitely recommend this book, and I plan on reading more of Bryson's books in the future.

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