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... so far, you should check out I'm A Stranger Here Myself, Notes From A Small Island, In A Sunburned Country and Neither Here Nor There. They're pretty funny. If you finish A Walk and come away disliking his treatment of the people he came into contact with in the small towns during ... I've read and loved most of Bryson's travel writing - A Walk in the Woods, Neither Here Nor There, Notes from a Big Country, Notes from a Small Island, Down Under, The Lost Continent... have I missed any? I also liked his biography of Shakespeare, considering how little material ... 900 – History, geography, and biography
914.04 Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson
914.96 Istanbul - Memories of a City - Orhan Pamuk
921 Dispatches from the Edge - Anderson Cooper
921 Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
949.702 Zlata's Diary -Zlata Fil ... #22
Neither Here Nor There was one that I tried and pretty much stopped in the middle because his descriptions of Europe and Europeans were so stereotypical that I was actually wondering if he hadn't just made the trip up (for a laugh?) and that he made up stories that would fit the US ... ... humourous while the latter stuff tends to get a little preachy when he starts in on environmental issues.
I read Neither Here nor There while travelling by train by myself. I was almost in convulsions reading about him getting trapped in an airplane seat. You really do get a lot of ... I would certainly choose Neither here nor there: travels in Europe by Bill Bryson from AHS-Wolfy's library. ... change and trying to rectify what he'd done. An intelligent and humorous novel as one would expect from this author.
Neither Here Nor There has been my first encounter with the wit of Mr. Bryson and I hope it won't be my last. This book deals with his travels around Europe retracing ... From jennieg's library I would pick A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I'm currently reading Neither Here Nor There which is the first one I've read of his books and I would like to read more at some point in time. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
1. Where did you get this book?
Oxfam charity shop
2. How much did it cost?
£2.49 (I think)
3. Why did you pick this book to read NOW?
I've never read any of his books previously so thought it was time I did.
4. How long has it been on ... Bill Bryson, Bill Bryson and Bill Bryson --- all of his travel books. I especially loved Neither Here Nor There Walk in the Woods and In a Sunburnt Country. His books are fun, funny, and immensly informative. ... - another enjoyable Bryson book. I place this somewhere between Thunderbolt Kid (my second favorite up to this point) and Neither Here Nor There. I liked this actually MUCH better than the latter book - more humor more distance covered I suppose...and I suppose the fact that there were more ... ... reading a book, but Bryson is hilarious. So much so that I suspect half of what he wrote is just made up :-D Like in Neither Here Nor There he talks about this saga where he's in Belgium, got off his bus, and like falls down a hill for a mile and trudges through some forest because he ... ... Garp :-D
oh and re: Bill Bryson. I have a bunch of his books, including A Walk in the Woods, but have only read Neither Here Nor There which I have to say was a really fun read. It's about his experience travelling across Europe (from Hammerfest, Norway almost to Istanbul, Turkey!) ... ... of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph Conrad *
3.8 Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson *
3.9 Animal Farm by George Orwell * ... Bryson
This is my third Bryson book - not as good as my favorite - A Walk in the Woods but I liked it much more than Neither Here Nor There. It was a fun read, definitely laugh out loud moments and sweet nostalgia thrown in as well - even if he was writing from a time about 30 years ... ... Bryson
This is my third Bryson book - not as good as my favorite - A Walk in the Woods but I liked it much more than Neither Here Nor There. It was a fun read, definitely laugh out loud moments and sweet nostalgia thrown in as well - even if he was writing from a time about 30 years ... ... Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
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Finishing Le Clezio's Wandering Star and Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson (the later perhaps an antidote to the overwhelming sadness of the former). Will then be dipping into a collection of Georges Perec's work, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. Just finished Bill Bryson's Neither Here Nor There today.
About a week into Gödel, Escher and Bach by Hofstadter - very interesting book, and surprisingly not outdated, despite being written 20 years ago Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet? by Charlene Ann Baumbich
The Cat Who Wasn't There by Lillian Jackson Braun
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes
Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams by Nick Webb ... witty, observant writer. I think my favourites of his are Notes From a Small Island (out of date, but not far off!) and Neither Here Nor There - although actually, they're all good. Always makes me want to go off travelling again. Another great travel/comment writer is Bruce Chatwin - ... Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler ... definitely want to go read more de Lint now, and I haven't been reading much fiction lately, let alone fantasy. So.
41: Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
reread
An absolutely charming tale of Bill Bryson's adventures through Europe. I don't remember when I first read it, but it ... ... to offend any French people on LT, just my experience). I really believe they don't sell any French books at all.
I read Neither here nor there by Bill Bryson a couple of weeks ago and in his chapter about Paris he mentions this store. What a coincidence to start the one book I bought ... ... which was rare for me and a Bryson book.
I was particularly amused by the following description of Roman driving in Neither Here Nor There though:
"I love the way Italians park. You turn any street corner in Rome and it looks as if you've just missed a parking competition for blind ... > 64, 66
Thanx guys, I think I will try another one by Bill Bryson, but not for a while. It wasn't that Neither here nor there was bad, it's just that it wasn't as funny as I had expected it to be. It did have me sniggering on some occasions though, but mostly I either found it not funny ... Finally finished Neither here nor there, my first book by Bill Bryson and was a bit disappointed. It was okay, but I had expected a lot more from it. Still, I understand it's not considered his best book, so maybe I'll try another one in a while.
Now reading Anansi Boys, my first book by ... Finally finished reading Neither here nor there by Bill Bryson. It's okay, but not nearly as funny as I had expected it to be. As I had read about 2/3 of it, things started to all sound the same. He goes here, he checks into a hotel, he gets something to eat, he goes there, he checks into a ... ... I should be able to read 120 books this year.
In the next three months I want to read: Miss Pettigrew lives for a day, In Europe, Middlemarch, We were the Mulvaney's and Happenstance.
Right now I'm reading The Keep by Jennifer Egan.
... C. Clarke which I quite enjoyed, even though the ending was a bit too drawn out for my taste.
Next up will probably be Neither here nor there by Bill Bryson as I've heard a lot of good things about him and I have one of his novels lying around here. ... a bit too drawn out for my taste. I expect Clarke had too, the book was slim enough as it was.
Next up will probably be Neither here nor there by Bill Bryson. Haven't read anything by him yet, but heard a lot of great things here on LT and from a colleague at work, so I'm looking forward ... ... an idiot. Bill Bryson is great; I'm reading I'm a Stranger Here Myself right now, but I think my favorite of his is Neither Here Nor There. I recently discovered (thanks to Nancy Pearl) Cold Comfort Farm, still very funny after so many years. Finished up my first two reads for 2008:
1. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
I always find Bryson's travel writing to be fun and relaxing to read - and I learn something as well. This book is about his travels in Europe, ca 1990. I found it did drag a bit at the end, as he found ... ... in a while:
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Life of Pi
The Devil and Miss Prym
Becoming a Writer
I'm still reading Neither Here Nor There aloud. We haven't been reading aloud much lately because we've both been so involved in our own books.
I'm 2/3 of the way through Life Before M ... Couldn't sleep last night so I started Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson. Enjoying it, as I do all his books. I started The Shipping News by Annie Proulx yesterday as well. I liked her Accordian Crimes so thought I'd try this one, and also because I knew a lot of Newfoundlanders ... ... copies of Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights for my daughter.
From Chapters online (Xmas giftcard!) I got:
Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
Still plodding along with Muir's work. I'm also reading Neither Here Nor There by Bryson aloud with my husband. It's quite funny and often hard to read aloud- the frequent hilarity tends to make enunciation difficult. ... too, but I couldn't bring myself to read the sequel.
I also find a lot of Bill Bryson's stuff pretty funny. I think Neither Here Nor There was my favourite (it's the one about him traveling through different countries in Europe). Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson 40. Neither here nor there by Bill Bryson
Great read, Bryson is perhaps one of my favorite authors and I read the book in one day pretty much. Not my favorite Bryson, but it was an enjoyable read that did not deal with law. Und hier die Shortlist:
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Looking For Mr. Goodbar - Judith Rossner ... posted, I would like to add two books by Bill Bryson: In a sunburned country about his travels in Australia, and Neither here nor there: travels in Europe, and two books by William Dean Howells: Italian Journeys and Venetian Life. Though obviously dated, the Howell's books ... ... Patterson
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... start untangling Bill Bryson's Lost Continent from the several editions where it was published as a 2 in 1 along with Neither Here Nor There.
My copy is a 2 in 1 with the ISBN 0436201305 however the title provided by Amazon is just The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America ... ... Norway, Denmark and Great Britain?
I'm a fan of Bill Bryson and have read his Notes from a small island and Neither here nor there. I've visited England and Scotland and have read a few travel books about them. I'm visiting all the above countries next year so it would be great ...
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