false 27 24 Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is <I>Neither Here Nor There, </I>an affectionate and riotously funny pilgrimage from the frozen wastes of Scandinavia to the chaotic tumult of Istanbul, with stops along the way in Europe's most diverting and historic locales. 3164459 1991 Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe total:4018|5:910|4:1685|3:1159|2:222|1:42| 4018 15253 5376 395 5 8 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Nov 13 06:15:36 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 18 13:36:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 07:14:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 06:40:30 -0700 2008 Neither Here Nor There,, my second Bryson book (the other one was similar but focused on traveling through the US), reads smoothly and seems like a pretty good place for potential Bryson fans to start. Bryson is kind of like your uncle if your uncle was Chuck Klosterman in 2040 and very concerned a...more...]]> 2 2 true false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Aug 15 22:31:42 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 22:39:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 2 true false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 07:47:15 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 07:52:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Oct 03 20:39:23 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 04:52:15 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 20:39:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 10:48:01 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 09:24:55 -0700 2007 Bryson is funny, but after a while he comes a...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 09:34:51 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 06:25:04 -0700 2007
the comments that i found to be most exciting...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 20 07:51:36 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 08 08:02:02 -0800 2008
I understand that he's spending a lot of his energy being funny, and so you have to take his set...more...]]> 1 2 false false Sat Jan 31 03:01:19 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 03:11:07 -0800 2009 3 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 14:06:21 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 11:28:59 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Apr 17 10:57:04 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 17 10:59:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Aug 03 21:45:56 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 21:59:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 11:29:35 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 08:58:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 10:41:36 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 12:47:43 -0700 2009
I didn't enjoy this one as much as other Bryson works, though I think that's probably because I just wanted to read about his travels through Italy, as I...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 03:52:58 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 18:28:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 16:09:37 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 15:43:50 -0700 2009 Dumb and Dumber. I have traveled in Europe and my philosophy was completely different from his. I knew that typical American tourists spend a day or two in a place ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 10 05:37:41 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 05:43:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 02 09:23:14 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 12:47:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 20:50:03 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 20:49:16 -0700 2009
Reading Bryson, I found myself transported back to those cities, those streets, those sights, those moments, where I had myself been earlier; and could remember the t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 09:47:15 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 09:54:29 -0700 2009 more...]]>