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Paperback Notes from a Small Island Book

ISBN: 0380727501

ISBN13: 9780380727506

Notes from a Small Island

(Book #1 in the Notes from a Small Island Series)

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Featuring an all-new cover, New York Times bestseller Bill Bryson's irrevent and hilarious journey through the beloved island nation he called home for two decades. From Downing Street to Loch Ness, this is a delightful look at the United Kingdom.

Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.

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7 customer ratings | 4 reviews

Rated 1 stars
Arrogant

The best word to describe Bryson is arrogant. When I read the part where he was needlessly rude to a McDonald's employee, I wanted to throw this book in the trash, even though it was just another episode of his pettiness that occurs throughout the book. The format is the same in almost every chapter - he's disappointed, foot- sore, and hungry so often, you have to ask why he even wrote the book.

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Rated 5 stars
Jolly good

I read this book while on my own farewell tour of Britain. My stay was significantly shorter, at 10 months, but I was equally enamoured with the country and was close to staying permanently as Bryson had done. For someone who had been in the country for 20 years, Bryson easily identified those idiosyncrasies that Americans will find most amusing about British customs. His actual travel destinations were quite interesting...

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Rated 5 stars
There will always be an england...

I have read and re-read this book in the way some Trekkies watch the cycle hundreds of time-(though hundreds would be an exaggeration in terms of my reads) It is fiendishly difficult to imagine a funnier ,non fiction book about england and i defy anyone to show me one that IS funnier!(Evelyn Waugh can be pretty damned funny -but he's no Bryson.) Bryson is a great companion as he finds his way around a country he obviously...

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Rated 5 stars
An American Views Life in Britain

Bill Bryson expertly captures the mental amusement and bemusement of an American living in Britain. I am an American who also lived in England, and I laughed myself silly reading this book. This isn't meant to be a travel guide or an in depth academic study of British culture as some reviewers must evidently believe. There are many ways to reminisce about life in a foreign country, and BB chose to tell us fond, funny stories...

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