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Ryan Benjamin _ — I found this book to be a paradox in a way - I didn't like it, wouldn't recommend that any of my friends go out and read it, yet still very much want to talk with someone who's also read it to see what they thought. Why? Well, the book has an incredibly interesting topic - the narrative of a French journalist's multiple treks across the US in 2004, inspired by Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy in America. He uses his journalistic credentials to interview an array of American leaders and politicians left, right and center - just about everyone who's since run for president, cable TV talking heads, what's left of the intellectual political philosophers (apparently not much), mayors, governors, and miscellaneous politicos. Just as often as not though, his interactions are drawn from everyday Joes from parts of the country like Arab Detroit, Cuban Miami, patrols along the Mexican border, Sun Belt retirement communities excluding anyone under 55 years, mega-churches, mega-malls, mega-prisons - even Guantanamo - and plain vanilla suburbs, getting insights along the way to which the bulk of Americans, myself included, are largely oblivious. Unfortunately, Lévy sacrifices depth for breadth with his innumerable 2-3 page recantations of these interviews and wanderings, even if many of these would be fascinating as stand-alone commentaries given a bit more substance and a lot less of the author's own narrative behind them. The question I keep coming back to - and this is the part that makes me want to find someone else with an opinion of this book - is this: how representative are Lévy's random and disjointed experiences and commentaries of America as a whole? Is one coherent viewpoint even possible? And if not Lévy's picture(s), what or whose contemporary equivalent would be better?

Blake Wilberding _28133fd7 — I felt like the main character was much older than seventeen in some ways. Yes, he did some pretty juvenile things typical of a young man that age, but some of James' insights were those of someone a bit older, in my opinion. Some parts were heartbreaking, others made me laugh. All in all, a book I will recommend to someone looking for a fast read that has some depth.

Vanessa Wysmierski vanessawyz — You know the canonical essay question, "If you could meet anyone in history, who would it be?" My answer is Bill Bryson. He's a treasure. I'd love to watch him write. I imagine him tugging scraps of paper from him pockets, pawing through notes, scribbling a few sentences through the haze of pipe smoke, and chuckling a bit before pulling out more notes. He's hilarious. He commands the English language like Pele commands a soccer ball, etching metaphors that resonate and wonder why you didn't think of it first.

Neto Peneluc netopeneluc — Definitivamente las novelas de misterio, que presentan teorías complicadas y rebuscadas de eventos históricos poco explicados son, como se dice en inglés, "not my cup of tea". Si bien la novela es divertida y atrapa casi desde el principio, resulta demasiado "truculenta" para mi.