PLANNING TO SEE "A WALK IN THE WOODS"?

That was the one Bryson book I liked a lot.

Also, I've got the book right here on my book table, as well.

I liked."In a Sunburned Country" a little better.

Every Insect , mollusc or reptile in Ausrealia, will kill you.

Didn't ever see that one. He did one on the U.S., forget the title, and he made a lot of fun of the people in Iowa. In my few weeks ever in Iowa, I liked the people and the place. Similar thing for me with his trip around England, some kind of readiness to ridicule sticks in my memory. Maybe he was funny and I was in a bad mood whatever years I read them, but I've read a lot of travel writing, many dozens of books, plenty of it with the authors describing the culture they were travelling through, and I'd not been as irritated before.

His father was a skinny tied Iowanian. I think the book you were talking about was the "Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid"

PS "In a SUnburnt Country" was never a movie, just a book

He actually did 2 that traced the English Language from Britain to US and Canada.

The neat thing was that he did the work as entertainment and not really hard assed scholarship.

I meant the book, sorry.
Well, you can tell I wasn't entertained at the time, re Iowa or England, but was happy with A Walk in the Woods, the book.

well, we went to see "A Walk..." While it was entertaining and had enough humor so we get the point, it wasnt nearly as good as your imagination could conjur by reading the book.
I give it 3 of 5 stars. I was swept up by Redford's last movie "All is LOST" (so I really expected more of him). That movie was a believable, tightly edited and good solid movie. Ya'd think the Appalachians and Bryson's book could have given him a lot more to work with than a sinking boat.

Scrap that ok.

I'm just listening.