-One Summer was excellent, as was Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt was maybe the most fun read and I really loved it because it reminds you of the funny stuff you did as an adolescent. Walk in the Woods was solid. Sunburned was my favorite read.. Read most of "At Home" but that is a lot, interesting but a slow read. On "Neither here nor there" and then I'm taking a Bryson break.
The story in Thunderbolt about the chemistry set explosion and his dad's reaction was pure gold.
Different strokes, but A Short History just didn't do it for me. I love history, and Bryson, but it fell flat when I read it.
Got distracted and stopped reading for a while, but I picked back up last week and finished Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson. I can't stress this enough, that man was/is a whole other level psychopath. It was crazy to come up with the concept of an apocalyptic race war that you would survive by hiding out in a giant hole in Death Valley, but to convince numerous other people of this inevitable series of events to the point they relocate and spend months looking for said hole is mind blowing. If you are interested in the 60's, Manson, counter culture, I highly recommend.
Started American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf. So far, a good read after about 60 pages. The most interesting fact is reading about just how popular golf was in the late 19th, early 20th century. I never grew up around the game, or anyone who even really played, so golf always seemed like a niche/super elitest sport to me in my youth. Obviously, that assumption was wrong, but had no idea the popularity was there a 100 years ago as it is today. Have high hopes for the remainder of the book.
