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Some chapters were very amusing while others dragged. I wondered why the House of Lords merited an entire chapter, given that it is not particularly central to the lives or concerns of the average Brit. However, my main quibble in the end was that I could not shake the feeling that the author doesn’t actually like the country or its inhabitants very much. I didn’t want to read a blind homage to England, but the tone of ill humor that suffused the book was rather off putting.]]>