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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780393334760
ISBN: 0393334767
Label: W.W. Norton & Co.
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: August 24, 2009
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Sales Rank: 830811
Studio: W.W. Norton & Co.
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“Should be handed out . . . in the immigration line at Heathrow.” —Malcolm Gladwell Sarah Lyall moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for amusing and sharp dispatches on her adopted country. Confronted by the eccentricities of these island people (the English husband who never turned on the lights, the legislators who behaved like drunken frat boys, the hedgehog lovers), she set about trying to figure out the British. Part anthropological field study and part memoir, The Anglo Files has already received great acclaim and recognition for the astuteness, humor, and sensitivity with which the author wields her pen.
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Rating:  - So why is she there?
That is the question I kept asking myself through out the time I wasted reading this book. I too am an American who lived in Britain, albeit not as long as the author has, but I also married a Brit and have been an admirer and studier of their culture for thirty years. I was hoping to learn something new here but instead found reading it an exercise in how to raise one's blood pressure. If life in Britain is as miserable as she would have you believe then why is she still there? My feeling is that ... Read More
Rating:  - The dust jacket is misleading
Having lived in England for a number of years, I was very much looking forward to reading this book and revisiting a country that I love via armchair. The description on the dust jacket made the book sound much like Bill Bryson's writings on England, humorous and clever. The actual book is comprised of 250+ pages of complaining of things about which anyone who has spent time in England already knows. It rains incessantly...yes, we know. The British are very reserved people who prefer to communicate ... Read More
Rating:  - Oh, to be in England!
Sarah Lyall has given us poor colonials a wonder, funny, and dead-on accurate depiction of our UK cousins. I literally could not put down this wee tome down until I finished it--laughing much of the way--in a single sitting.
Rating: - A subject too good to be so bad
Yes, some of the anecdotes were interesting, but my initial infatuation with the idea of this book was not backed up by writing that was superbly entertaining. Its dry, journalistic style grew boring after only two chapters. In fact, the farther I got into the book, I started to fall asleep after several pages every time I picked it up. And, not to mention, then there were so many opinions espoused that bordered on ridiculous.
Because the author is a journalist, her book would have been ... Read More
Rating:  - Entertaining, but ouch! She's harsh!
She is remorseless in cataloguing the short-comings of Brits - especially men. Upon completing it I must say that it was entertaining and I'm sure it does give one an insight into British character... but I enjoyed Bill Bryson's book about England more (Notes from a small island?). It's just that "The Anglo Files" is so unremittingly harsh! It didn't come across as wry or full of a sense of wonder (I believe that phrase was used on the back of the book) but just generally negative about most aspects of British ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780393334760
ISBN: 0393334767
Label: W.W. Norton & Co.
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: August 24, 2009
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Sales Rank: 830811
Studio: W.W. Norton & Co.