The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island

I did love it - funny and interesting, but isn't he getting grumpy? I thought of how I embarrassed myself on a train by laughing often at "Neither Here Nor There", many years ago. This is as entertaining. I was able to compare my perceptions of many places with Bill Bryson's, as well as the pros and cons of attitudes in the UK and USA. I enjoyed listening on a tablet whilst flipping to follow his progress on a map.
" The Bryson line" notion was rather pretentious and irrelevant.
He slated aspects of our ways, interspersed with restating often how world beating a view or concept is. He'd receive better responses on his travels by being less snippy. But it's a "must read" for Bryson fans.

Best when he intereacts with people. Worst - sorry naration.

Always, admire and enjoy his work, just this time has a slightly bitter edge to it. Being a Yorkshireman myself, I can see he has taken on some of the Yorkshire characteristics.

No, made Bill Bryson sound sour, I don't understand why Bill Bryson uses other narators, when he does it himself you become more empathetic to his point of view. Seems to have a random approach to having himself read his books or use someone else.

No.

Will listen again just to make sure I am not being unfair in assesment.

I think this would be better as a physical book as the narrator's clunky pronunciation of British place names throws it off course sometimes. I do enjoy Bryson's books but he can be a bit of a grumpy old man. I'm not sure this added a great deal to his previous book on Britain and it is a bit Southern centric considering it's supposedly based on the premise of travelling from South to North along a specific line Bryson invented.

I really enjoy Bill Bryson's books and was very much looking forward to this one but despite a number of laugh out loud funny moments it was let down by woeful narration. The narrator mispronounced a whole slew of English words, his accents were dreadful (was it deliberate?), the worst being what I thought of as the reverse Sean Connery at the end when he made a Scot sound like a Lithuanian.

Speaking of Scotland, Bryson calls this a tour of Britain but somehow managed to condense all of Scotland into one stereotype ridden chapter. Stereotypes can be funny if handled well but these were just unintelligent cheap shots. It was well below Bryson's usual standard.

It had some funny, endearing and dramatic moments which earned it a three but this is certainly not Bryson at his best.

Another charming, witty and heartwarming book in the best Bryson tradition.
The narrator is excellent and made it a real pleasure to listen to.