[Tech1] Bill Bryson

[dave.mdv]

Very amusing books and very informative. His daughter lives near to us 
in Thames Ditton. I am working my way through 'Little Dribbling' which 
mentions so many places I have been to or worked in! Cheers, Dave

On 15/03/2021 15:07, Nick Way via Tech1 wrote:
> Bernie,
>
> If it helps, I have joined Surrey Libraries and they have an online 
> service and am galloping through several Bill Bryson books at the 
> moment on my phone. They can also be read on a tablet. Both need an 
> App downloaded.
>
> Nick WAY
>> On 15/03/2021 12:47 Bernard Newnham via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> With Woking Library long closed, so I can't take my books back and 
>> get more, I'm either re-reading stuff here, or buying from 
>> Waterstones (patronise local traders).
>>
>> The reason for offering this for discussion is that I bought two 
>> books recently. I finished one yesterday and started straight in with 
>> the other -  and what a come down.  The second book was Machines Like 
>> Me by Ian McEwan - a man very well known, and much feted by critics 
>> around the world. The first was Thin Air  by Richard Morgan, he of 
>> Altered Carbon, and you've probably never heard of him.  Morgan's 
>> book is like thrashing along on a mad blustery day, and McEwan's is a 
>> just slow dull plod - I've given up. I've moved on to re-read a Jack 
>> McDevitt.
>>
>> So - what do you read? What can you recommend?
>>
>> B
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