Bill Bryson Notebook: The Body A Guide for Occupants

by Body Bill

Paperback

Published March 31, 2021

Reviews

[Alan Camrose · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have very much enjoyed Bill Bryson's previous works, but not this one. I have stopped reading it, not because I don't want to learn fun facts about our human vehicle, but because I have found the book written in a style too much like a textbook, one that is often too superficial for the subject matter, and sometimes simply seems to use vocabulary to hear the sound of the words. The length of a human's unravelled gut was, to be fair, pretty breath-taking. As usual, neat turns of phrase, but somehow didn't work for me this time out...I'm still a fan, but I will be more selective going forward as to subject matter.

[Craig Budgen]

Another awesome book by Bill Bryson.

He has an uncanny knack of being able to take something very detailed and make it extremely easy to read with an awesome layer of humour throughout.