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Title: great fun to read while visiting in England
Review: My British hosts gave me a copy of Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island to read and enjoy during my visit in July and August. I had researched the traditional British travel books thoroughly so I knew the "facts" but I had great pleasure and fun reading his "personal views" while I was traveling to many of the places he mentioned. I needed the road atlas to keep track of his wanderings to places unfamiliar to me. I wish he wouldn't have ignored major parts of the country (like the Midlands) but it was his trip and not a comprehensive travel guide. It is his ideas and views only and his wit was refeshing. As I read the customer's comments (after I returned home) I was surprised at the enthusiastic response from the British readers themselves...their comments alone would draw me towards his writing. I have become a Bill Bryson fan.
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