I tried reading Bill Bryson a long time ago and wasn't into it.
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I tried reading Bill Bryson a long time ago and wasn't into it. Second attempt, years later: on the strong rec of a friend, I picked up A Walk in the Woods. It is GREAT. Solid narration on the audiobook helps, but even the print version would make this one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's a very enjoyable memoir with some light humor (occasionally making me LOL) and a sprinkling of history. #Books #Bookstodon #AmReading #NonFiction #Memoir #Hiking #FridayReads @bookstodon
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I tried reading Bill Bryson a long time ago and wasn't into it. Second attempt, years later: on the strong rec of a friend, I picked up A Walk in the Woods. It is GREAT. Solid narration on the audiobook helps, but even the print version would make this one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's a very enjoyable memoir with some light humor (occasionally making me LOL) and a sprinkling of history. #Books #Bookstodon #AmReading #NonFiction #Memoir #Hiking #FridayReads @bookstodon
@dbsalk @bookstodon it’s the only Bryson I’ve ever read but I very much enjoyed it.
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@dbsalk @bookstodon it’s the only Bryson I’ve ever read but I very much enjoyed it.
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I tried reading Bill Bryson a long time ago and wasn't into it. Second attempt, years later: on the strong rec of a friend, I picked up A Walk in the Woods. It is GREAT. Solid narration on the audiobook helps, but even the print version would make this one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's a very enjoyable memoir with some light humor (occasionally making me LOL) and a sprinkling of history. #Books #Bookstodon #AmReading #NonFiction #Memoir #Hiking #FridayReads @bookstodon
@dbsalk @bookstodon I've read quite a bit of Bill Bryson and I really like his work. In fact, I don't think there's any of them that I didn't like, although some of them did not age well. The last one I read was about his trip to Australia and it seemed very out of date. Of course, it is pretty old.
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I tried reading Bill Bryson a long time ago and wasn't into it. Second attempt, years later: on the strong rec of a friend, I picked up A Walk in the Woods. It is GREAT. Solid narration on the audiobook helps, but even the print version would make this one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's a very enjoyable memoir with some light humor (occasionally making me LOL) and a sprinkling of history. #Books #Bookstodon #AmReading #NonFiction #Memoir #Hiking #FridayReads @bookstodon
@bookstodon @dbsalk One of my favorite books!
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@cetan @jaykass I think my bar for giving a book 4 or 5 stars is whether I would want to re-read it, and this one definitely hits that mark. My friend who recommended it said she's read it at least a few times and might re-read it again soon.
It makes me want to be more outdoorsy and give hiking a try, though I'm grounded enough to know that an extended excursion along Appalachian Trail would be a ridiculous undertaking for someone like me.
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@dbsalk @bookstodon I've read quite a bit of Bill Bryson and I really like his work. In fact, I don't think there's any of them that I didn't like, although some of them did not age well. The last one I read was about his trip to Australia and it seemed very out of date. Of course, it is pretty old.
@mlanger This was published in 1998, and while I would hope that not much has changed along the Appalachian Trail in the past 3 decades, my guess is that change - both good and bad - is inevitable.
I think my first attempt with Bill Bryson, over a decade ago, was I'm A Stranger Here Myself. I probably gave up on it after a couple days. This is so much better.
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@cetan @jaykass I think my bar for giving a book 4 or 5 stars is whether I would want to re-read it, and this one definitely hits that mark. My friend who recommended it said she's read it at least a few times and might re-read it again soon.
It makes me want to be more outdoorsy and give hiking a try, though I'm grounded enough to know that an extended excursion along Appalachian Trail would be a ridiculous undertaking for someone like me.
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@mlanger This was published in 1998, and while I would hope that not much has changed along the Appalachian Trail in the past 3 decades, my guess is that change - both good and bad - is inevitable.
I think my first attempt with Bill Bryson, over a decade ago, was I'm A Stranger Here Myself. I probably gave up on it after a couple days. This is so much better.
@dbsalk @mlanger It's been 17 years since my thru-hike but the ATC had been routing the trail around towns it once passed through and adding more switchbacks. It's probably longer and less challenging with a little more forest and a little less Americana. But Bryson didn't hike much of the trail anyway so the book probably holds true.
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