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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 224 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.

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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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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