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In this pithy, warmhearted, and very funny book, Eagleton melds a good old-fashioned roast with genuine admiration for his neighbors "across the pond."
Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as "aggressive," use superlatives to describe everything from one's pet dog to one's rock collection, or speak frequently of being "empowered." Why, asks Eagleton, must we broadcast our children's school grades with bumper stickers announcing "My Child Made the Honor Roll"? Why don't we appreciate the indispensability of the teapot? And why must we remain so irritatingly optimistic, even when all signs point to failure? On his quirky journey through the language, geography, and national character of the United States, Eagleton proves to be at once an informal and utterly idiosyncratic guide to our peculiar race. He answers the questions his compatriots have always had but (being British) dare not ask, like why Americans willingly rise at the crack of dawn, even on Sundays, or why we publicly chastise cigarette smokers as if we're all spokespeople for the surgeon general.
In this pithy, warmhearted, and very funny book, Eagleton melds a good old-fashioned roast with genuine admiration for his neighbors "across the pond."
- Sales Rank: #132218 in Audible
- Published on: 2013-10-08
- Released on: 2013-10-08
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 371 minutes
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56 of 69 people found the following review helpful.
Off the mark
By Black Swan
I am British and have lived in the US for ten years, so you would think the content of this book would be resonant with my own experiences. The perspective offered is quirky, anecdotal, amateurish and generalizes the highly personal observations and opinions of the author in a rather grating way. Both his description of typical British and American attitudes and behavior seemed off the mark much of the time. He is very anchored in his own generation and the specific places in each very diverse country he has been to. His humor is not really very funny, despite his trying very hard. There is also an undercurrent of superiority and mean-ness that is off-putting. He claims, for instance, that Americans use the word kids too much instead of children. First of all, who cares? Secondly in Glasgow, where I grew up, the childrens' hospital was referred to as the "Sick Kids", whereas my childrens' pre-school in the US always uses the word children in published materials, classroom reports and parent-teacher meetings. Reading between the lines I would guess he was only in the US for a few years at the most, didn't really fit in or enjoy it and his motivation in writing the book was to press home the point "you're not as great as you think" to Americans. Well, my guess is most of them don't care. This may find a readership with Brits and Irish who aren't that high on America, but even they will probably find it dreary and pedantic.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
An Englishman's View of Himself
By DJ Jonathan E.
Just because a work is not entirely worthless does not mean that it is not far from worthy. Eagleton makes the occasional good point, a nugget amidst the dross. However, most of the time he rather earnestly and onanistically explores his own navel, revealing more about his prejudices than the supposed subject. Much of the book is a tiresome slog through what can only be described as an intellectualist hall of mirrors, confusing and ultimately pointless.
Stereotypes and generalizations are a poor man's way of looking at the world, and despite a slightly amusing anecdote here and there, Eagleton never manages to get beyond a rather familiar and trite view of Americans. If there's an obvious target, Eagleton shoots at it regardless of whether it's been hit before or is worth hitting in the first place. As an Englishman living in the US for over forty years, I felt that Eagleton has simply not observed the wide variety of humanity, let alone the landscapes and cities, to be found in this country. Eagleton rightly takes aim at American foreign policy, but one doubts that any Americans will take note after his generally dismissive, even abusive, comments and insults towards them. He is a master of the old English skill of delivering sugar-coated venom.
There is a tradition in the world of drama of describing an appallingly awful performance as "extraordinary." This is an extraordinary book. Extraordinary that it found a publisher and extraordinary that the author found it peculiar that some publishers turned him down. He is too clever by half and quite overly full of himself.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
What tripe
By M. R. Jones
I am not often moved to write a review on Amazon, but I feel I just had to after finishing this book just seconds ago.
My background: I was born, raised and educated in Wales (part of the UK). My dad's Welsh, my mum German. I studied at Manchester University for 3 years and lived and worked in London for 4. I've never been to the US, but I have plenty of US friends and have read many US books (fact and fiction) and newspapers and journals.
Well, it's no wonder that I never got on with the English if this is their attitude to life.
Terry Eagleton was already familiar to me from his book on literary theory (I did an MA in English Literature). That was pretty much full of tripe, too.
I'd say about 1/3 of this book is accurate. The rest is just vile fantasy.
And some of his comments just take the biscuit. Comparing Hamlet's dying words to Steve Jobs's. Well, does he not realise that the former is a fictional character and his words have been written for him?
Then the comment about how the Americans believe that will power is all that is needed to achieve something and that if someone wants to fly to Rio and there is no airport nearby then if they believe enough and they will grow wings... How facetious. Where there's a will there's a way means that you find a way to achieve what you want. Like catching a bus or a train to the nearest airport. Not just willing yourself to grow wings.
The comment about how only in America will you find really long freight trains. My dear.. come to Germany, where I now live, and see the length of the trains here. Just because the UK doesn't believe in the rail for freight doesn't mean to say that the rest of the world doesn't either.
And as for flag waving.. have you seen the Danes? Nearly every house will have a flagpole in the garden.
And as for the recommendations at the end... Are they meant to make the Americans more like the English? What an awful prospect.
There are things that I don't like about Americans (too loud when they talk [very noticeable in Europe], cannot tolerate the slightest criticism about their country [whereas the English tear their country to pieces], and they can't laugh about themselves [but then, neither can the Germans]), but there are a lot of positive things about them, too, and that is lost in all the vile remarks in this book (e.g. philanthropy, striving to be better people, good at impromptu speech-making, better-edited books, and at least you can have a serious conversation with them, which I never managed to do with an English person in the UK as they tend to make everything into a joke).
Anyway, the upshot is that I am embarrassed to think that Americans will think all people from Britain are as .. as nasty as this person.
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