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Title: Couldn't finish it
Review: I was misled by the glowing reviews on this review page. I expected to read a very funny travelogue, but instead ended up plowing half-way through this book before I quit. Where exactly is the humor? It all seemed contrived. There are even a couple of times where the author is amazingly mean-spirited (if I recall correctly, there is part where he talks about a strike at the newspaper where he worked, and how one night when he was trying to leave a guy got out of his car blocking traffic. Bryson says that even after all these years he would still gladly drag this guy on rough ground behind a car. How amusing.). I would have rated this book even lower, except for one thing. My expectations were so high for a really good book and the disappointment so great, that maybe I'm not judging it for what it really is. I suppose anyone interested in Britain might find this book informative, if they don't mind the annoying forced humor.
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