jayG60

So far, I've only read A Walk in the Woods and A Short History of Nearly Everything. Perhaps not enough to say I'm a fan. But I enjoyed both and will probably read more of his writing in the near future.

TheHoodedClaw

Short History is very amusing and covers a wide range, although of course it has virtually no depth. A good thing is that it has sold around 1.5 million copies in the UK alone. That must be by far the record for a pop science book, and I'd wager it's been read more often than Hawkings' ever was.

IamMoose

LOL yes I am pretty sure it has . I enjoyed it, though not as much as his travel books..

Lilia

Count me in as a fan - I've read all his books save for Mother Tongue and the one he wrote about Africa (?). Down Under was my favourite with A Walk in the Woods a close second. Love his humour

Deadbeat

I read In a Sunburned Country a few years ago and was instantly hooked. Since then, I've read Notes From A Big Country, and A Walk In The Woods, and I'm saving up to get the rest of them.

I find the books to be a very comfortable read.

Mediancat

I've read, and own, most of them, the exception being Neither Here Nor There, which I have read but do not own. (I also don't own his language books, but I've read all of them.)

Rob aka Mediancat

scombrid

I was living in and working in Shenandoah National Park when I read A Walk in the Woods. They had us summer fisheries techs housed in an old CCC cabin sans electricity out in the middle of the woods. I thoroughly enjoyed that book by lamplight as I battled the mice that made nightly incursions. The story of Catz hooking up with Beulah in Waynesboro just about killed me.

IamMoose

LOL yeah ... what was it he said? there could only be two men in the entire world willing to sleep with her and there they both were in the same town?

I often wonder whether some of the people Bryson mentions ever recognise themselves in his books .. Mary Ellen, for instance. I presume he changes the names and some facts about them, but still