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A Small Correction and some General Discussion
Mu Beta Started conversation May 13, 2004
"and, I believe, re-release older travel books there too"
'Notes...' was actually Bryson's first travel book, but he did re-release a couple of his previous excellent English Language books ('Mother Tongue' and 'Made In America') on the strength of his new popluarity.
Interestingly enough, I lent Notes From A Big Country (the sequel, when Bill was back in New Hampshire and making wry comparisons between British and American ways of life, and which I find absolutely hilarious) to an American friend of mine, and he really hated it. He though Bryson was a whinging git of the worst sort. Although he was a Maths student, so what would he know? 
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A Small Correction and some General Discussion
JulesK Posted May 13, 2004
Eek, I thought the one he wrote about Europe was older and somehow my brain had filed 'Made in America' as a travel book - oops.
Well at least I know someone read the review, anyway !
Jules 
A Small Correction and some General Discussion
Mu Beta Posted May 13, 2004
Well I always read the Bookworm Review since Pinwheel Pearl took me grotesquely out of context on one of the Harry Potter books (yep, I'm that intellectual ).
I love Bill Bryson's travel books, but as a lover of pop-science, I was disappointed by A Brief History Of Nearly Everything, or whatever it was called. It was much too bland for Bryson and he seemed to be reduced to making fun of people's foibles, rather than the idiosyncracies and traditions for which he is justly renowned.
B
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JulesK Posted May 13, 2004
I have yet to read that one - it really didn't appeal at first, then I read good things about it so I thought I might read it, haven't got round to it yet though.
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Pinwheel Pearl, GURU, Post Book Reviewer, Muse of Japanese Maples and Owlatron's Thundercat Posted May 14, 2004
"Well I always read the Bookworm Review since Pinwheel Pearl took me grotesquely out of context"
Aha! So my little plot to get more people reading the column worked!
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Wildman - I'm not really mad, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years! Posted May 14, 2004
I've been searching for my copy of 'Notes' but I can't find it...... Some 
has probably "borrowed" it!
However - in the first post above, B says "'Notes...' was actually Bryson's first travel book" - but the tour of Britain he writes about was taken in 1994 and 'Lost Continent' (about a trip in America) was published in Britain in '89 - and 'Neither here nor there' (about a tour of Europe) was '91.
So it sounds as if the schoolmaster has done it again!
A Small Correction and some General Discussion
JulesK Posted May 16, 2004
So I was correct and haven't got to retire from my short career of book-reviewing after all?!
Jules
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