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Paperback Things Snowball Book

ISBN: 0349115761

ISBN13: 9780349115764

Things Snowball

I stopped off at the Peace Gardens - a memorial straddling the US-Canadian border commemorating 'Lasting Peace Between America and Canada', as if there had ever been a problem. Show me a garden commemorating Peace Between America and, say, Iraq and I'll be impressed.
America is like a beauty contestant. It's gorgeous, until it opens its mouth.'

From the similarities between US gun laws and British drinking hours, to what cryptic crosswords really tell us about the British psyche, American in London Rich Hall casts a keen eye on the lunatic contradictions and weird marvels of his native and adoptive homelands.

'Full of acute left-field reflections on America and Americans, plus some marvellously irreverent sketches ...wise, witty and strangely true' GUARDIAN

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A Bit Hit or Miss

Some of the essays in this short volume are laugh-out-loud funny, much like Mr. Hall himself. However, there were a few that were quite dull, and a couple that were in poor taste indeed. This is the beauty of a book of essays, though. If you're in the middle of one that isn't stellar, you know that in a few pages you'll get to try a new one. Sort of like chocolates in a sampler box, and that's not a bad thing.
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