Bill Bryson

[chooch]

no, i didn't like it because he was patronising, smug, lazily misogynist, union-bashing, unfunny and boring

This. Tedious twat peddling eighth-hand saloon bar guff as insight. THe science one succeeds in making science mundane, which is an achievement of sorts.

 

[october_lost]

imo if anyone is going to take the piss out of the british it will be the british, it's one of the things we do best. not a fucking hobbit.

 

[In Bloom]

The bit about leaving Wapping during the strikes? Hardly a tirade, though.

Was about 12 when I read it, and I really don't remember much about it at all. Shows how good it is, really