Unless you're comfortable in metric, imperial and the UK's various quaint units of measure you'll find yourself pausing to do the conversions yourself. Sometimes Bryson will refer to length in feet, or meters, or weight in kilos, pounds or stones, he might provide conversions, or he might not. Finally, for a book that's partly trying to explain a technical subject it contains an infuriating mismatch of differing systems of units of measure. Sometimes there's a great mix of those, but more often than not the science suffers because too much time is taken on some personal observation or anecdote that that isn't all that interesting, or some other mixture of the three. This book's a mixture of scientific fact, anecdotes and personal observations. He's still not quite capturing what made "A Short History." great. He has also written multiple non-fiction books, including A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) and The Body (2019). He is most well known for his travelogues, such as Notes from a Small Island (1995) and A Walk in the Woods (1997). I've read many of Bryson's earlier books, this is the third one of his that I've read with a scientific theme read after "A Short History." and "At Home". Bill Bryson is an American author who lives in the UK. Bryson manages to sound monotone, unexcited and borderline out of breath throughout. It's great when certain authors narrate their own works, as you can really feel their enthusiasm for the subject, but boy is this not one of those cases. Average, really needs a professional narrator,
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |