For example, there are 600,000 people on the London Underground at any one time, “making it both a larger and more interesting place than Oslo”. Dear Mr. Bryson, When your books are on, they’re wonderful. And before you think it's all critical, think again. He has an incisive mind and an eye for detail plus an innate sense of humour that together produce a vivid insight into real life that is often critical, invariably affectionate and always presented with a fantastic sense of humour. You could argue that some of the places he visits are seen through the rose tinted spectacles of someone who already has a happy memory of them and isn't entirely sure he wants to leave. CORRECTION: YouTube Will Not Have 30 Sec Ad Bumpers. Yes, there are some places that he didn't like and he is unstinting in some of his criticisms (I am planning to visit the Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway soon - I do hope that the irrational and dangerously fussy man with the annoying and inadequate moustache that Bill Bryson met there has since retired). Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. I appreciate that Bill Bryson has a huge following and I've come to him very late. Certainly there are no in-depths insights into the British character to be found here. Overall it was an easy read and quite interesting, but I'm sad to say I shan't be reading any more of his work, though I had such high hopes. Everybody loves Bill Bryson, don’t they? Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2020. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Leleuvia Island Resort: Notes from a Small Island - See 275 traveler reviews, 391 candid photos, and great deals for Leleuvia Island Resort at Tripadvisor. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2018. Mostly because he is so funny, but also because he is American by birth and yet such a great enthusiast for Britain, its landscape, eccentricities and way of life. And also because his agent asks him to. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island, by Bill Bryson - book review Independent culture newsletter The best in film, music, TV & radio straight to your inbox every week Are you sure you want to delete this comment? That I am an American residing in England for many years helps, mind you, so I cannot but help to identify with his viewpoint of life here. Bill is a genius writer. I also found many of his anecdotes exaggerated to the point of them losing credibility. I wished I'd read it sooner. Revealing that to us is one of several risks that he takes in writing about himself as a successful man, including a scene in which he is recognised in public, in his own book. Twenty years ago, Bryson wrote of arriving at Dover and heading north in the hilarious Notes From A Small Island, which was hugely entertaining proof that it takes an outsider to see the truth about where you live. I also really disliked his intrusive political comments (they didn't add anything to a book about the British character) and, having assumed him to be a rather pleasant, amusing chap, found him to be unnecessarily vulgar, quite rude to people and generally unpleasant. So I immediately bought several more of his books and have just completed "Notes from a small island". Time will tell. We are very liberal with our permission. Great and hilarious read, us Brits are a strange breed and not much has changed but the buildings and architecture. This basically means you shouldn't copy our content without permission. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. I first read this book ten or so years ago. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. The droll, but rather schoolboy level of humour and the thread of anti-intellectualism - the crass Wordsworth reference stands out - become increasingly tiresome. “There isn’t a landscape in the world that is more artfully worked, more lovely to behold, more comfortable to be in than the countryside of Great Britain,” he says, urging us to look after it. I was really surprised as I don't usually get to form an opinion of an author via their writing. The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. Small Island review – Levy’s Windrush epic makes momentous theatre Olivier, London Andrea Levy’s story of first-generation Jamaican immigrants in … They’re funny, informative and a delight to read. Bryson does lapse into some rather British grumpy-old-man rants in places (Blaenau Ffestiniog being one of them) but overall this is a very affectionate look at mainland Britain. Written on: 10/01/2009 by lozza999 (1 review written) I love this book, Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island I have been doing it in school, and our class was so inspired, we decided to make our own version, called notes from a small school, it was a very exciting topic to do !!

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