Erin's review
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
Erin's review
the bloody head-bashing-in-story.
that was the critical turning point in the novel-reading for me, personally. the moment i realized bill bryson is a comedic wonderchild. the moment i was simultaneously overjoyed to have discovered him as a writer and depressed i wasted so much time trying to pretend erma bombeck could truly capture the lasting effects of one's childhood experiences with sex ed. the moment i spit an unhealthy mixture of sprite and airline peanuts all over the back of a poor old lady sitting five inches in front of me on my southwest flight, i was trying to curb my hysterical laughter so hard.
I finished the entire thing between Arizona and JFK, even with periodic breaks for adjusting my chair angle repetitively and making the two morbidly obese young women between me and the aisle get up so I could use the bathroom. At one point, I cried (because it was funny. Not because one of the aforementioned young women ate an entire tube of pringles in my ear in the last ...more
that was the critical turning point in the novel-reading for me, personally. the moment i realized bill bryson is a comedic wonderchild. the moment i was simultaneously overjoyed to have discovered him as a writer and depressed i wasted so much time trying to pretend erma bombeck could truly capture the lasting effects of one's childhood experiences with sex ed. the moment i spit an unhealthy mixture of sprite and airline peanuts all over the back of a poor old lady sitting five inches in front of me on my southwest flight, i was trying to curb my hysterical laughter so hard.
I finished the entire thing between Arizona and JFK, even with periodic breaks for adjusting my chair angle repetitively and making the two morbidly obese young women between me and the aisle get up so I could use the bathroom. At one point, I cried (because it was funny. Not because one of the aforementioned young women ate an entire tube of pringles in my ear in the last ...more
