Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh,...
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.
I quickly settled into that not unpleasant state of mindless that tends to overcome me on long journeys.
an unfamiliar mixture of excitement and exhaustion and intense optical stimulation. Everything seemed so vivid and acutely focused and new. I felt like someone stepping our of doors for the first time. It was all so different: language, the money, the cars, the license plates on the cars, the bread, the food, the newspapers, the parks, the people. I had never seen a zebra crossing before, never seen a tram, never seen an unsliced loaf of bread(never even considered it an option), never seen anyone wearing a beret who expected to be taken seriously, never seen people go to a different shop for each item of dinner or provided their own shopping bags, never seen feathered pheasants and un... (查看原文)
第一次读到这本书，是十五岁时英文课本里要求背诵的一篇文章节选，那时觉得作者的文字好美，那一段是描写他在西西里附近的Capri岛上，天色将晚，独自观望远处山丘倾泻下的灯火，脚下就是悬崖与大海。作者写道： “The sea was so far below that the sound of breakin...
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If you have a sense of humor, I bet you'll love this book. I bought it from Chaterhouse Booktraders in Shanghai, and finished it during the New Year holidays. He started this European trip from the northern-most city of Hammerfest, and finished at Istanbul...
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I learned the fact that Bryson was popular (besides Wikipedia says so) from the library checking status list. I’m so used to that when searching for certain writer, all his works would be neatly listed with the status description of “available at xxx libr...
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0 有用 gwendelyn 2016-04-21 12:44:31
Bill在不少城镇都找到亮点，有满足的经历, 不过这样的片断其实很难攫取读者的注意力。他的那些倒霉的遭遇，就是文中的笑点了。Bill最拿手的，就是夸张地嘲讽、亦真亦假地描述，让读者从他的不幸中找到快乐。