I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away | Bill Bryson

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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 228 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not bad for a collection

As a fan of collections of brief articles, and a bigger fan of Bill Bryson's work, this collection was a joy to read. My only mistake was reading it in a public setting, where laughing out loud was met with strange gazes and glares from others.

The basic gist is this: after living in England for many years, Bill Bryson and his family move to America and to small-town New Hampshire. He continued to write a column for a newspaper in England, however, the subject of which was the peculiarities of life in America. It is these articles that are collected here. Whether you'll love each individual article depends on your mood at the moment and whether you're interested in the topic; for example, I skipped through exactly one story (detailing his struggles with computer tech support).

To American readers, the book allows us to laugh at ourselves and the nitty gritty details of our society that we shake our heads at constantly. Since the book's components were written for a non-American audience, I would speculate that others would be equally amused. In any event, Bill Bryson's unique style and constant bewilderment at the way other people's minds work will keep any reader entertained.

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I loved this book. I am not a critic... just a person who thought this book was hysterical. I never laugh aloud reading, but did on this one. He has a great dry sense of humor that matched mine. I would recommend to anyone.. only exception would be other big writers and critics... I am sure they would rip his book for something. I liked his other book about hiking the Appalachian Trail too, but this one was funnier.

Very funny!

This book was really fun to read, it's clever and funny. Since each chapter is was a newspaper column originally, it reads like a collection of short stories.

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Me too.

Having lived outside the USA for the last 38 years, I return as a tourist, who feels strangely at home. B. Bryson's observations are often my own. His send-up of American "civilization" rings true and is wonderfully refreshing. It makes me glad to be back so I can see for myself! Benjamin Franklin was right when he recommended the American national emblem be the turkey.

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