The life and times of the thunderbolt kid by Bill Bryson.
Can I just cut and paste every other review I've done on a Bill Bryson book?
why do I keep picking him up?
It's like the Sunday newspaper magazine article about the new Bond film.
You sit on the loo , you read and your life is not changed. It's not harmful but it's not enlightening.
It passed the time.
Having said all that I liked the stuff about the big fifties themes, communism, racism, consumerism etc.
2 comments:
Oh, it's not just me.
Funny thing is that I really loved the first Bryson book I read. I thought it so was full of sharp insightful observations and it made me laugh out loud.
Then every other one I ever read has left me cold. I keep hoping to recreate the feeling I had when I read his first book but it never comes.
Has he got worse over the years? Or does his formula only work once?
I'm sure he's a great bloke, it's just, well, it's just.
It's hard to pin down.
I should admit to having a laugh out loud moment, I left that out of the review as I didn't want folk to think I laughed out loud.
But I did.
Once.
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