My first review in the year of 2000. Bill Bryson has now moved back to USA, and this book consists of columns he wrote for Mail on Sunday's magazine "Night & Day". 78 columns are collected in this book, all more or less amusing observations of the mysterious behaviour of people in USA. Naturally all of the stories are about the differences between USA and UK, for example that Americans take their car wherever they are going; even if it's only a block down the street, how the Americans love to have a variety of choices for everything, how everyone is happy to sue each other on basically no grounds at all, that irony is an unknown concept and all personal that have anything to do with aeroplanes are the devils' servants. Brysons' strength is that he manages to capture all those little details that oneself ponder on from time to time. I have to get my hands on more books by Bill Bryson since they are most surely the funniest books I've read in a long time. And in particular: "Notes from a Big Country" is certainly the funniest and best book I have read so far this year :)
