Title: Desk Fever
Product review: With far too much time on my hands I have elsewhere offered my comments on Bryson's other books and awarded five stars to each. This book is awful. It came out in the UK under the title 'Notes From A Big Country' and is effectively a series of journalistic pieces cobbled together to make a buck. One senses that Bryson has gotten lazy. As a writer, his talents are best served by subjecting himself to inconvenience and peril to entertain us all, (I, for example, was hoping that Bill would be attacked by a bear in A WALK IN THE WOODS and possibly eaten) but this business of sitting by a snug fire in Hanover, New Hampshire and writing about cupholders is a disappointment. Bryson's formula works best when he is the participant rather than a social observer. We have enough journalists making whimsical observations about minutae. We need to get Bill back to somewhere dangerous; Mt Everest would be good. Or somewhere with crocodiles.
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