Note From A Small Island
I just finished listening to the BBC reading of Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island. I enjoyed it enormously. It has the same kind of good natured snarkiness based on acute observation as Paul Theroux' The Kingdom by the Sea but is probably a bit broader in its humour. Living in Yorkshire has obviously had an effect on Bryson. Some parts had me laughing out loud, especially perhaps the bir where he is trapped on a train with the most boring man in the world although the lunatic with "atomic balls" runs it close. Got to give it to my alma mater, to have Peter Ustinov and Bill Bryson as successive chancellors suggests a certain collective sense of humour.