"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."
And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
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評分“幽默”大概是最常放在Bryson身上的標簽瞭。個人感覺他的書最適閤馬上枕上廁上等零碎時間看,因為笑點密集,隨便拎齣幾句話,都能讓人笑齣來。比如他形容美中大平原的平:摞起兩本電話黃頁站上,能看齣去一個州(原文是很大一片風景,get a view)。 但用大塊時間一口氣讀下去...
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