The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir | Bill Bryson

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	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir Bill Bryson Broadway, 2006 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 211 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Thanks again, Bill.

The pages relating the story of the friend's dad who leaps from the impossibly high diving board may be the funniest ever written in English. What could anyone have been thinking to rate this lower than 5 stars? Thanks to Mr. Bryson for an outrageous look into a world now gone.

Laugh out Loud

I absolutely loved this book! I am from Des Moines and same age as writer- but I believe anybody with a love of nostalgia and sense of humor would adore this book!

It's a Howl

Born in the 40s, I don't think I've ever laughed so hard reading a book. On the New York subways, where passengers give new meaning to the word "jaded," even they look at me as if I'm crazy as I cackle aloud. Bill Bryson has put me on the nostalgia express, somehow making every paragraph worth at least a chortle as he reminds me, who grew up on the East Coast, about life surprisingly so like mine in his Midwest. School, parents, cars, television, sexual mores and a raft of other subjects are the targets of his incisive and derisive wit. Not even having reached the sad day when I will finish this book, I couldn't wait to write my first Amazon review. I'm also personally recommending it to all my roughly Baby Boom friends. Don't fail to read this book, which, in case you missed my point, I loved unreservedly.

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Remembering

Well written but I am seventeen years older so I have my rememberences in the forties. Very enjoyable to read.

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