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Greg Gutfeld came to England to take up a job as editor of a men's mag. Leaving New York as a stressed yet slim high-achiever, he soon settles into life in the UK and embraces a new world where the food is crap and the beer lukewarm, but where the people seem remarkably laid back and happy nonetheless. Two years later he leaves to return to his homeland, somewhat heavier and generally less fit than when he arrived, but with a newfound understanding of the secret of happiness, which weirdly has nothing to do with herpes (see chapter 66).
Two chapters into this book I was thinking of Bill Bryson and his various works. This book reads like a cross between [[Small Island]] and [[''Notes from a Big Country]] '' as it contains the inane ramblings of the latter set in the country of the former. And, like both of those books, it's very easy to read and pretty funny.
This book has 95 chapters but fewer than 250 pages. You do the maths. We're talking short chapters - sometimes just half a page - but a lot of them. And, when the subject of a chapter is vomit, Pepperami or wasps, you don't really crave a longer chapter, so that's ok.
