bryson

so i've read bill bryson's the lost continent as well as his in a sunburned country (both travel writings). sunburned, i must say, was a million times better than lost continent. i actually read sunburned first and really liked it. loved it actually. so i was really interested in reading his other books. but this book was a bit of a disapointment. i think lost continent was one of his first works so he wasn't very good with the actual travel bits, like the introductions of states, bits of trivia, information about places visited. he did a much better job with sunburned. you actually learn a lot from this book. it will in no way replace an actual travel guide but it does provide lots of silly and rather useless statistical information. lost continent actually gets better with this info stuff as you read along. however in other aspects it doesn't get better. in sunburned it's obvious that he loves australia and is really happy to be visiting. he has nice things to say about everyone and everything. he doesn't bs tho. if he doesn't find it charming he says so. but in lost continent he's just an ass. oh sure we kno that he left america at basically the first chance he got so of course we're not expecting him to be in love the states or anything. but he's so mean! he's highly critcal and talks shit about nearly everything! he doesn't, by far, seem like the type of person i'd want to travel with. in this book anyway. sunburned country is really good. they say a walk in the woods is also really good but i'm a bit put off from lost country. really, that's how bad it is. or mabye it's just that my expectations were so raised from sunburned. in any case. i didn't enjoy it nearly as much as i had hoped i would.