Zydeco reviewed on 3/18/2012 + 80 more book reviews

This book started out well; funny and casually informative, but devolved into a book less about birdwatching than a Bill Brysonesque snobbish commentary about overweight citizens of the USA, Germans' involvement in WW II, etc. The author tries to inject humility into the book by stating how great he thinks the USA is, but it sounds false given how much more often he relies on stereotypes and mean-spirited examples of what he considers the oh-so-common culture of the USA.

I abandoned this book one-third in and never looked back.

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