"At just the point where I was finally growing up, Des Moines stopped feeling like the place I had grown up in."
"People were charmed and captivated-transfixed,really -by the broiling majesty and unnatural might of atomic bombs.When the military started testing nuclear weapons at a dried lakebed called Frenchman Flat in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas itbecame the town's hottest tourist attraction.People ca"
"As a nation,the Japanese were none too happy about any ofthis.In less than ten years they had achieved the unwelcome ditinction of being the first victims of both the atom and hydrogenbombs,and naturally they were a touch upset and sought anapology. We declined to oblige.Instead Lewis Strauss,a form"
Bill Bryson这喜剧狂人,昨晚熬夜读的时候一直在憋笑,怕被男朋友听到,输了早睡的赌注.... 总之流畅好看,informative and entertainting, 他的好笑一是梗密集,很多段子像小屁孩日记的作者长大了写的,什么母亲和脱脂干酪、尿尿罐的故事啊,姐姐看电影和哥哥的擤鼻涕纸啊,简直是专栏作家“你不笑算我输”的职业素养,再就是擅长后视镜讽刺,婴儿潮时代(也是太空时代)被他夸张地写成一个迷之技术乐观的时代,人们像着魔一样谈论着新冰箱,太空汽车,冲到Vegas去看核弹爆炸... 这种情调捕捉下来也蛮壮观的,壮观而好笑。