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This is why I have a cat.
Jeff wrote: "...and Gavin has a dog."
And peanut butter. Lots and lots of peanut butter, from what I hear.
GAAAAK! There's no substitute for peanut butter, not even maple syrup.
Jeff wrote: "It’s never a good idea to read Bill Bryson on public transportation."
I was reading In a Sunburned Country for the second time in the Bethesda Maryland Metro subway elevator, a long ascent from train to street. 2 guys were also in the elevator. I had collapsed laughing in the corner. To other readers of Sunburned Country, one word early in the book: Drool. I think the other passengers were Turkish. I tried to explain my joyful hysteria: "This book..." We reached the street and they fled.
Another Goodreader (Roy) noted that Bill Bryson's books improved as he wrote them, one after the other. Neither Here nor There was published in 1993, Sunburned in 2000. The latter was a jewel. Neither Here has a surfeit of crude adolescence -- which befits Bryson's recollections of his 1973 tour of Europe with Katz and shows that two decades later, on Bryson's reprising trek, his frontal lobes had not quite matured. But I still got a lot of laughs from Neither and in 2019 -- Bill Bryson, thank you, thank you, thank you. And I enjoyed the tour, too.
You can certainly tell how Bryson's humor evolved over the years by reading his books - Sunburned was good, but I thought A Walk in the Woods was better.
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Jeff wrote: "...and Gavin has a dog."And peanut butter. Lots and lots of peanut butter, from what I hear.
GAAAAK! There's no substitute for peanut butter, not even maple syrup.
Jeff wrote: "It’s never a good idea to read Bill Bryson on public transportation."I was reading In a Sunburned Country for the second time in the Bethesda Maryland Metro subway elevator, a long ascent from train to street. 2 guys were also in the elevator. I had collapsed laughing in the corner. To other readers of Sunburned Country, one word early in the book: Drool. I think the other passengers were Turkish. I tried to explain my joyful hysteria: "This book..." We reached the street and they fled.
Another Goodreader (Roy) noted that Bill Bryson's books improved as he wrote them, one after the other. Neither Here nor There was published in 1993, Sunburned in 2000. The latter was a jewel. Neither Here has a surfeit of crude adolescence -- which befits Bryson's recollections of his 1973 tour of Europe with Katz and shows that two decades later, on Bryson's reprising trek, his frontal lobes had not quite matured. But I still got a lot of laughs from Neither and in 2019 -- Bill Bryson, thank you, thank you, thank you. And I enjoyed the tour, too.
You can certainly tell how Bryson's humor evolved over the years by reading his books - Sunburned was good, but I thought A Walk in the Woods was better.
