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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

af Bill Bryson

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In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.

From the Deep South to the Wild West, from Elvis' birthplace through to Custer's Last Stand, Bryson
visits places he re-named Dullard, Coma, and Doldrum (so the residents don't sue or come after him with baseball bats). But his hopes of finding the American dream end in a nightmare of greed, ignorance, and pollution. This is a wickedly witty and savagely funny assessment of a country lost to itself, and to him.

Travel through small-town America with Kerry Shale's popular BBC Radio 4 reading of Bill Bryson's comic travelogue.

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    The Small Town in American Literature af David M. Cook (RedEyedNerd)
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I generally enjoy Bryson's writing. However, rereading this book I found it a little sour.
  ritaer | Feb 18, 2024 |
Wasn't as exciting or funny as A Walk in the Woods or In A Sunburned Country, but The Lost Continent was an interesting perspective to read. Bill talks about road trips with his family growing up, and as an adult, he didn't want to repeat those long hours in the car...until he decided to write this book. ( )
  ohheybrian | Dec 29, 2023 |
I wanted to love this. I wanted to be cool and adore Bryson like the rest of the world. But in this book, at least, I found him to be snobbish and snarky and small minded and in a few cases downright mean. Didn't like this at all. ( )
  Kim.Sasso | Aug 27, 2023 |
Fun to read.
  kevindern | Apr 27, 2023 |
I had a hard time getting through this book. Maybe I was disappointed after the blurb on the cover told me it was the book Steinbeck would have written if he'd travelled with Letterman instead of Charley. Puh-leese. Bryson seems to mostly loathe his native land, and I'm not sure why he bothered to take this heartless journey. A big disappointment. ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
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In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.

From the Deep South to the Wild West, from Elvis' birthplace through to Custer's Last Stand, Bryson
visits places he re-named Dullard, Coma, and Doldrum (so the residents don't sue or come after him with baseball bats). But his hopes of finding the American dream end in a nightmare of greed, ignorance, and pollution. This is a wickedly witty and savagely funny assessment of a country lost to itself, and to him.

Travel through small-town America with Kerry Shale's popular BBC Radio 4 reading of Bill Bryson's comic travelogue.

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