Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

i just finished reading this book this afternoon. and just like the statement written on the book's cover, it is indeed a book not to be read in public as you would snort and laugh all the way.

Bryson takes us to a journey with him all around Great Britain, a country he loved so much but he had to touch base after 20 years of working there. yeah, Bryson is an american writer who enjoyed so much living there that he had to take a last tour of the "island' before he leaves for United States.

He is definitely frank about the English, and the Queen's English, and how englishmen are so into using words like Bottom, Bowells, Titsey as names for places. i find this hilarious, and of course, informative. u get to understand and to know places u have never heard of, and descriptions of the place. pre and post civilisation, or more specifically, pre- this book, and post-the book he compared it to.

This is my second book from Bill Bryson and i think he soon gona be my next StephenKing kinda addiction :)

owh, happy new year!! may we read more and share more and discuss more on the books we have read or the books we have not.

cheers!

short history of nearly everything by bill bryson

this is seriously a good book.a very serious read nevertheless. it takes lots of thinking and conforming into the writer's ideas.

i definitely recommend this book for those who loves seeking for worldly explanation like where do all the dinasours gone to? how did the earth exist? how mankind has become what they are today?

i like the style of writing where one could actually imagine the era that he was discussing, and the way he explains things makes u imagine them in real size picture.

it reminds me of 'sophie's world'..the trains of thoughts are easy to follow and ideas are easy to digest.