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    A Dominican family saga from the island to New Jersey and back. People and events in Dominican history explained in terms of sci-fi and fantasy - one for all, Trujillo as Sauron. A mixture of English and Spanish that goes beyond Spanglish. It's one of the strangest books I have ever read, but I enj ... (continue)

    A Dominican family saga from the island to New Jersey and back. People and events in Dominican history explained in terms of sci-fi and fantasy - one for all, Trujillo as Sauron. A mixture of English and Spanish that goes beyond Spanglish. It's one of the strangest books I have ever read, but I enjoyed reading it very much!

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    Here Bryson tells a comparative (hi)story of the USA and American English by anectodes. He covers so many topics, from the Pilgrim Fathers to the movies, from placenames to sports, and how each of them contributed (not necessarily new) words to the English language. Both very interesting and funny!

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    Notes from a Big Country

    Although the title recalls "Notes from a Small Island", this is not a Bryson's travelogue across the US. It's a collection of his weekly columns for a British newspaper while he was residing in New Hampshire in late 1990s, mostly about comparing life in the US vs in UK. You have to remind that while ... (continue)

    Although the title recalls "Notes from a Small Island", this is not a Bryson's travelogue across the US. It's a collection of his weekly columns for a British newspaper while he was residing in New Hampshire in late 1990s, mostly about comparing life in the US vs in UK. You have to remind that while reading - when he writes "you people" he means Britons - otherwise it can get quite confusing. Interesting and funny!

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  • Most of what Anderson writes makes sense, although there are some doubtful passages - mainly, figures that come out of nowhere, either because the data source is not clearly mentioned or because they have been tampered with (see note 20 on the "compared" sales of Wal-Mart vs Rhapsody).
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    Most of what Anderson writes makes sense, although there are some doubtful passages - mainly, figures that come out of nowhere, either because the data source is not clearly mentioned or because they have been tampered with (see note 20 on the "compared" sales of Wal-Mart vs Rhapsody).
    My advice: take the concepts, and forget the numbers!

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    ― Posted on Oct 12, 2009 | Add your feedback

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