... of the most entertaining and yet informative memoirs I have ever read. It was written by Bill Bryson, and its greatest accomplishment IMHO is recreating the world of ... in the Midwest of America so that I felt as thought I was there, or at least could have been there. I am generally enamored of all of Bryson's works, and, though this work ranks up there, it is hardly my favorite. I am extremely ...

... . I mean, that sounds like one seriously boring subject. This brings me to Bill Bryson. The man has a way with words that can take the most excruciatingly dull and lackluster topic and ... ;           As well as his magical ability to make anything entertaining, Bill Bryson’s writing is also very good from a composition standpoint. He establishes a ...

The travel writer Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa (1952). As a young man he settled in England and supported himself with a series of jobs as a copy editor, and ... 38 states. The result was his book The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989), in which Bryson poked fun at his home country, while reminiscing about his Iowa childhood. He wrote, "Much as ...

... occurred 500 million years ago. But now Bill Bryson has created A Really Short History of Nearly Everything, and he' ... 39;s all here, and all stunningly interesting. What's not here? Creationism. Bryson not only doesn't deal with it, he doesn't acknowledge it; for him, the world ... quot;bad news" for other species. Bryson's conclusion: "If you were designing an organism ...

... tell you that getting two protons to collide is exactly equivalent to firing two knitting needles from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean and having them strike in the middle.” (This probably is as good a time as any to mention again Bill Bryson’s wonderful A Short History of Nearly Everything.)

... vibrant cultural tradition. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he is on the dangers posed by snakes, insects ... , drought, and grinding poverty. Travelling around the country, Bryson casts his inimitable eye on a continent new to him, and the resultant diary ... s funny, it's poignant - but it's too short. Bryson displays his trade mark horror of danger even ...

I’m a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson (1999) This collection of topics, with Bill Bryson’s usual humorous outlook, is very enjoyable. It’s a great book to pick up and put down because each chapter is a short story about a separate subject. Bryson was urged to write articles about returning to America after living in England for 20 years. This book is a ...

My feelings on Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island are very, very mixed. It cannot be denied that Bryson can be very funny, and I enjoyed the first half a lot! I liked the format he started out using, where he would go to a place and flashback about is arrival there in the 70's and then flash forward again to the present - that was cool and ...

Bryson knows his limits, and doesn't even try to explain the theories, but puts what was going on in context so that a lot of sound information slips down painlessly, and very entertainingly. Recommended for anyone interested in the history of science who doesn't want to have to pay detailed attention (especially to vicarage who was questioning the utility of non-current non-fiction, ...

“..The first thing that strikes you when you see the Large Hadron Collider is how remarkably uncomplex it looks. It is essentially just a long, shiny pipe running through a large concrete tunnel. It looks like a pipe that would run under any city street, carrying water or sewage, but this is a deception. The