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Notes from a Small Island

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Kim
few weeks ago
A very "in the moment" kind of book. The writing is mostly clever and even though Bryson is American, he's got that Brithish wit and lingo down pat. If I were to visit the U.K., I would take this book with me as a cozier, more anecdotal travel guide. The architecture talk bogged me down a bit, and it is nearly impossible to skim this book. Just when you think you can glide over an assail of...more
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few weeks ago
Just fell about laughing while reading it! :-D I do think, however, that maybe Bryson should revisit Britain once again - particularly Manchester - he will find that those dreadful yellow tiles that made the Arndale Centre look so lavatorial are no more! There's not usually much good to be said for bombs, especially when they go off in your home city, but the IRA bomb in Manchester in June...more
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I bought this book in California a few weeks before moving to that small island myself to teach for a year. This has become one of my favorite Bryson books (though truthfully, I love all of his books) because he and I share almost identical feelings about Britain. It is a marvelous place, and he captures this in his book. I bought many books while in England and couldn't possibly bring them...more
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few weeks ago
I first read this book when it was published 11 yrs ago and I've read it a couple of times since. It's one of the books that I take to bed with me when I want to dip in and read favourite bits. I just remember his first landlady, Mrs Smegma, at the awful BB........well it had to be good didn't it!
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Bryson is brilliant for both his pitch-perfect capture of place, but also his capture of _time_, and this is a too-funny excursion into England of the mid-nineties. Which, unfortunately, leaves some parts feeling just a little dated, but it still wears well. Don't read this book in public unless you don't mind people staring at you as you snort and chortle uncontrollably...
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  • ISBN-10: 0553455931
  • ISBN-13: 9780553455939
  • ISBN-10: 0553525077
  • ISBN-13: 9780553525076
  • ISBN-10: 0688147259
  • ISBN-13: 9780688147259
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