Scan barcode
A review by msalornothing
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
4.0
The book- Britain is less than perfect, and that's more so the case now then when Bryson released this originally I'm 1995, but my god is this a love letter to the things we do well and the general geographically of the whole layout.
The accuracy of this book is regularly questioned (could he have taken that train route on that day at that time? Were the publicans and hotel owners charicture composit characters of the real people he met along the way? but the information about the country as he journals his travels is weaved in a perfect balance of humour and frank honesty.
I was welling up with that last chapter. He sounded homesick and he hadn't left yet.
The audiobook narrator - did a great job except for the accents. Maybe Mr Roberts should leave the Scottish accent out next time. I've not met many Scottish people but I think the ones he was portraying were Scottish of Indian and Hungarian decent, who had picked up the local accent of Dublin somewhere along the way.
The accuracy of this book is regularly questioned (could he have taken that train route on that day at that time? Were the publicans and hotel owners charicture composit characters of the real people he met along the way? but the information about the country as he journals his travels is weaved in a perfect balance of humour and frank honesty.
I was welling up with that last chapter. He sounded homesick and he hadn't left yet.
The audiobook narrator - did a great job except for the accents. Maybe Mr Roberts should leave the Scottish accent out next time. I've not met many Scottish people but I think the ones he was portraying were Scottish of Indian and Hungarian decent, who had picked up the local accent of Dublin somewhere along the way.