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Bill Bryson likes hedgerows, yelling at people, the English language, complaining, pretending to be a hiker, the fifth Duke of Portland, W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck, and himself . He tries too hard to be clever, and although you're being introduced to some interesting mental pictures ("a mid-face snack dis Leggi tutto

Maybe it's because I've worked for 25 years in customer service, but listening to some middle-class dude complain about trivialities is not my idea of entertainment, it's work. In the main, the book was okay. There were some hilarious bits, however, much of the humor was in the form of grousing, whic Leggi tutto

It took me forever to read this because I was constantly picking it up and putting it down, not because I wasn’t enjoying it, but because it’s one of those books where it works to read it in this way, and I read so many other books during the times I took breaks from reading this book. Sometimes I ju Leggi tutto