Comments on: Renewing my Visa with Bill Bryson http://regex.info/blog/2007-04-24/435 Not a photo blog, but sometimes I play one on TV Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:24:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Steve http://regex.info/blog/2007-04-24/435#comment-7516 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:28:43 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-04-24/435#comment-7516 I'm also a big Bryson fan. Like John McPhee (who wrote a whole book about Oranges!), Tracy Kidder, and others, he is a master of the "book about nothing". Sort of a literary Seinfeld. You could compare them to great photographers in that they look at what others look at, but somehow see more, or see it differently. And independently, they can really write! Crisp, concise, with fresh, lively structure, and using vocabulary that perfectly captures nuances---practically without you noticing. Except for the smile on your face or the resonance of perfectly formed prose mainlining directly into your brain. I’m also a big Bryson fan. Like John McPhee (who wrote a whole book about Oranges!), Tracy Kidder, and others, he is a master of the “book about nothing”. Sort of a literary Seinfeld. You could compare them to great photographers in that they look at what others look at, but somehow see more, or see it differently.

And independently, they can really write! Crisp, concise, with fresh, lively structure, and using vocabulary that perfectly captures nuances—practically without you noticing. Except for the smile on your face or the resonance of perfectly formed prose mainlining directly into your brain.

]]> by: Michael Friedl http://regex.info/blog/2007-04-24/435#comment-4075 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:07:24 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-04-24/435#comment-4075 I'm so glad you like Bill Bryson's writing. I will have to get the new one! <span class='jfriedl'>Yes, it's really hard to dislike anything he writes, he's so unassumingly witty. Thanks for introducing his writing to me! —Jeffrey</span> I’m so glad you like Bill Bryson’s writing. I will have to get the new one!

Yes, it’s really hard to dislike anything he writes, he’s so unassumingly witty. Thanks for introducing his writing to me! —Jeffrey

]]> by: nils http://regex.info/blog/2007-04-24/435#comment-4034 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:57:09 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-04-24/435#comment-4034 Holy Cow, I've got two Bryson books open at the moment, re-reading Made in America for about the 19th time and looking up something I half-remembered from Mother Tongue. Over the winter I re-read Notes from a Small Island. If you don't have any of those I'd be happy to lend any of them to you anytime. I especially recommend Made in America in the remote chance that you haven't read it, which is really remote if you are a Bryson fan. Holy Cow, I’ve got two Bryson books open at the moment, re-reading Made in America for about the 19th time and looking up something I half-remembered from Mother Tongue. Over the winter I re-read Notes from a Small Island. If you don’t have any of those I’d be happy to lend any of them to you anytime. I especially recommend Made in America in the remote chance that you haven’t read it, which is really remote if you are a Bryson fan.

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