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I'm A Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away de Bill Bryson
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I'm A Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years…

de Bill Bryson

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Ik ben een echte Bill Bryson fan. Zijn boeken hebben het soort humor waardoor je tijdens het lezen steeds zit te gniffelen (soms tot grote irritatie van mensen om je heen). Ik heb net zijn boek Aantekeningen uit een groot land gelezen, erg leuk! En interessant ook want Bill Bryson is een nieuwsgierig mannetje die onderwerpen tot de bodem uitzoekt.

Aantekeningen uit een groot land is een ideaal "effe lezen en dan effe wat anders doen" vakantieboek. Het bestaat namelijk uit circa 80 columns die hij schreef voor de weekendbijlage van een Britse krant. Bill Bryson is een Amerikaan die in de jaren zeventig op wereldreis is blijven hangen in Groot-Brittannië. Hij is getrouwd met een Engelse en werkte decennia als journalist bij diverse Britse kranten. Eind jaren negentig gaat hij met zijn gezin terug naar Amerika en schrijft voor het Britse publiek over wat hij daar allemaal meemaakt.

Hij is weliswaar zelf een geboren Amerikaan maar intussen half Brits en als relatieve buitenstaander kan hij zich zeer verbazen over de Amerikanen en de Amerikaanse maatschappij. Zijn columns gaan over van alles en nog wat. Bijvoorbeeld dat in Amerika niemand loopt: alles wordt met de auto gedaan en de gemiddelde Amerikaan gebruikt zijn benen voor maar 350 meter per dag. Verder dat het in Amerika stikt van de advocaten: in totaal 800.000 stuks. Dat zijn 300 advocaten per 100.000 inwoners en dat de "I sue you" cultuur helemaal doorslaat. Hoe groot en wild Amerika wel niet is: bijvoorbeeld de staat New Hampshire, waar hij woont, bestaat voor 85% uit bos. In die wildernis kunnen mensen gemakkelijk verdwalen en zelfs vliegtuigen neerstorten om nooit meer gevonden te worden. En zo gaat het door met interessante en bizarre voorbeelden van het leven in Amerika. Een echte aanrader!
  BieblogHengelo | Jul 31, 2009 |
Bryson back to his hilarious form of "Notes from..." Much less crude and much more funny. ( )
  ORFisHome | Jul 13, 2009 |
I have significantly enjoyed several of Bryson's books, this one was less reliably and a little less interesting. Part of the problem may have been time lag. This book is nearly ten years old now and some of his more perceptive comments about the US are now commonplace. Another difficulty is that I have extended family in the UK, which is why I expected to enjoy the book more, but that may have served to make it less interesting for me. Do not get me wrong, I did laugh out loud several times, and I was not bored. The three star rating says exactly what I feel: This was good enough but not better than good enough. Other LT reviewers agree with me that this is not his best effort. ( )
  NeverStopTrying | Jul 11, 2009 |
Bryson writes good stuff as always but this is a collection of his newspaper columns so I enjoyed it rather less than some of his other works which hang together better. The columns start to follow a set formula after a while - probably as you would expect - and I found the little quirky twist at the end REALLY started to annoy me! ( )
  samsheep | Jun 30, 2009 |
My husband and I listened to this book on cd while taking a road-trip from Chicago to the Smoky Mountains. It was very entertaining and had us laughing so hard at times we were crying. Hearing the author read the book in his dry candor, definitely enhanced the experience. ( )
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Amazon.com (ISBN 076790382X, Paperback)

In the world of contemporary travel writing, Bill Bryson, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods, often emerges as a major contender for King of Crankiness. Granted, he complains well and humorously, but between every line of his travel books you can almost hear the tinny echo: "I wanna go home, I miss my wife."

Happily, I'm a Stranger Here Myself unleashes a new Bryson, more contemplative and less likely to toss daggers. After two decades in England, he's relocated to Hanover, New Hampshire. In this collection (drawn from dispatches for London's Night & Day magazine), he's writing from home, in close proximity to wife and family. We find a happy marriage between humor and reflection as he assesses life both in New England and in the contemporary United States. With the telescopic perspective of one who's stepped out of the American mainstream and come back after 20 years, Bryson aptly holds the mirror up to U.S. culture, capturing its absurdities--such as hotlines for dental floss, the cult of the lawsuit, and strange American injuries such as those sustained from pillows and beds. "In the time it takes you to read this," he writes, "four of my fellow citizens will somehow manage to be wounded by their bedding."

The book also reflects the sweet side of small-town USA, with columns about post-office parties, dining at diners, and Thanksgiving--when the only goal is to "get your stomach into the approximate shape of a beach ball" and be grateful. And grateful we are that the previously peripatetic Bryson has returned to the U.S., turning his eye to this land--while living at home and near his wife. Under her benevolent influence, he entertains through thoughtful insights, not sarcastic stabs. --Melissa Rossi

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