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Laddar... The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britainav Bill Bryson
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I enjoyed some of Bryson's other works but here he just spends 350 pages complaining like an old man about everything and everyone. ( ) 25 years on and Bill Bryson has taken a second nostalgic walk around the Small Island! I’ve heard some complain that in this sequel he sounds a tad jaded but I disagree. I found this to be classic Bryson style. He’s relaxed, has pleased himself where he went and had fun writing this I think. He journeyed by foot, car, bus or train from the south to as far north as he could get in Scotland and I loved it all. The thing that really gets me with Bryson’s books, and he manages to do it every time, is the casualness with which he educates me! In chapter 21 he’s talking about going to see Birkenhead Park which he says is a ‘typical large Victorian city park.’ But here’s the thing and I’ll cut his telling of the story down to just the basics. It was designed and opened in 1847 by the former head gardener of Chatsworth House Joseph Paxton and built especially, to be enjoyed by all people. Well four years after it opened, an American on holiday in England visited Birkenhead. Frederick Law Olmsted was so taken with it that on returning to America he studied to be a landscape designer and went on to design Central Park in New York City! How good is that. I also discovered that Bill Bryson has a daughter named Felicity and that’s my name! This could not catch my interest. It seemed kind of amusing, but my mind kept wandering. I’m not sure if this is just not a good book for the audio format or if I’m just not in the mood. Or maybe because it’s a sequel and I haven’t read the first book. I gave it my minimum 20 minutes of audio time before DNF’ing. No star rating given as I suspect my disinterest has more to do with me than the book. Audiobook borrowed from my public library. Nathan Osgood’s performance was fine. The Road to Little Dribbling is the twenty-year follow-up to Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson’s classic travelog covering his 1995 road trip across Great Britain. Notes was enough of a disappointment that if Dribbling hadn't already been on my bookshelf I would have skipped it, and I would have missed out. The humor was more like what I’ve come to expect from Bryson - absurd, ironic, and a bit snarky - with no hint of the meanness that spoiled the first book for me. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed--and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today."--From book jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)914.104History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Europe British Isles, UK, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland TravelKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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