The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
 

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

by Bill Bryson

A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook.
With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of boredom,... (read more)

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Mark N
  • Rated 4 stars

The funniest Bryson book that I've read. This book in itself inspired me to drive across the states in search of adventure, although I came to realize somewhere along the way that it isn't necessarily the adventure itself that made this book great, but rather the witty, conversational way in which it was told.

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Donna K
  • Rated 2 stars

If this had been my first Bill Bryson book, I would never have read another one. I didn't hate it as he did have one or two nice things to say about America, but I felt like writing him a letter and telling him that if he doesn't like it here, go back to England where he didn't come from...but since it wasn't my first Bryson book, I shook it off and read another one.

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  • Rated 3.786942 stars
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  • Rated 3.5 stars
 

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  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    wbradley, the same could be said of some reviewers/commentators... Bryson ranks with bodett and sedaris as some of the smartest, funniest writers alive! walk in the woods, a small island and sunbaked country are all excellent, some of his other work lags, but is still better thsan reading the latest NYT bestseller. also like william least heat moon, a lot, but would agree, he does suffer from the illness you attribute to bryson

    posted Wednesday, October 24 2007
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