There are bits of this book that are uproariously funny ... belly aching and tears streaming funny. There are also very interesting bits of trivia and history sprinkled throughout. For those two reasons I recommend this book. However as a whole I was left wanting after finishing it. There's somethin...
The first half of this book was so funny I wanted to read it again and again. There was a lot of information--history and factoids--that made the book very interesting, too. I credit this book on getting me back into reading after the disastrous months preceding where I barely read at all. Easily on...
Bill Bryson's writing style is very much like Douglas Adams' in places, which naturally immediately endeared him to me. While not quite as excellent a book as "In A Sunburned Country", it's still a riveting read, and I found myself longing to go on hikes on the Appalachian Trail myself, even though ...
this was almost exactly what i needed right now.and while my experience of hiking the camino de santiago is not nearly as ... so many things really - rustic, hard, extreme, long, wild, far, lonely, treacherous - as hiking the AT, it was still fun and reminiscent to hear someone else's account of hik...
Goodreads Summary:Bill Bryson, whose previous travelogues 'The Lost Continent', 'Neither Here Nor There', and 'Notes from a Small Island' have garnered the author quite a following, now returns to his native United States after more than two decades of living abroad. In order to rediscover America b...
I really wanted to like this book. But about half way through it, I realized it was really not the book I supposed it to be. Rather than being the tale of two men traversing the Appalachian trail, it was in fact a collection of the author's opinion on various components of America that might be re...
Read for Book Club discussion.In the past I have listened to one or two Bill Bryson books on audio, and I really enjoyed them. I do most of my listening in the car, and it must have been strange for people in oncoming cars to see this woman driving along on her own, laughing out loud. This time I we...
I listened to this on audio and found myself chuckling frequently on my commutes to work and back for the past week while I listened. Bryson is a master of mixing great historical detail in with whatever current humorous hijinx he's up to (in this case, the history of the Appalachian Trail mixed in ...
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