Jun 06, 2000 | 304 Pages
Oct 02, 2012 | 557 Minutes
Jul 05, 2000 | 360 Minutes
"Painfully funny and genuinely insightful…Bryson has never been wittier or more endearing."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"Wonderfully droll…Bryson is unparalleled in his ability to cut a culture off at the knees in a way that is so humorous and so affectionate that those being ridiculed are laughing too hard to take offense."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Bill Bryson makes writing look too easy."
—USA Today
"A cross between de Tocqueville and Dave Barry, Bryson writes about today’s America in a way that’s both trenchantly observant and pound-on-the-floor, snort-root-beer-out-of-your-nose funny."
—San Francisco Examiner
"Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud."
—Chicago Sun-Times
