The Thunderbolt Kid- Bill bryson

Never before has history been laced with so much sarcasm and humor than in Bill bryson's book, "The Thunderbolt Kid". The judgmental, almost condecending, style of bill bryson mixed with a biography of his own childhood maranate together to make a deleciously filling and lively story about america in the late 50s.
The 'Thunderbolt Kid' was what young bill bryson pretended to be when he dresses up as one of the superheros in his comic books. Although he tries to use his powers for good, throughout the book he is constantly zapping people into a smoking piles of ash.

Here is an interview with him






As you can see bill bryson's natural humor greatly contributes to his style of
writing. This great humor is shown by constantly poking fun at himself,

the US, and his general way of life constantly throughout the book.

I recommend that you read through the first chapter, because this

book is to good to stop at one page.

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I hope you enjoy this book

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

In the book, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson you can really experience a little piece of American wilderness, more specifically and better known as the Appalachian Trail.

A Walk in the Wood is a great book to read if you want to get a feel of nature. You experience everything he experienced and you feel the way he felt while he was hiking.

Bill Bryson lived in England for 20 years of his life and finally decided to move back to America where he was born. Not long after moving back he comes along a path that vanished in to the woods of the edge of town. There was a sign that read "Appalachian Trail." This trail runs 2,100 miles from Georgia to Maine which wanders through 14 states. With this Bryson decides to do the impossible, walk the whole Appalachian Trail (only a very few people walk the full 2,100 miles). To walk the total trail it takes about 4 months from beginning to end. He has lots of mixed feeling about his adventure because it is a somewhat dangerous journey and anything can happen. Bryson talks about how people have been attacked by bears and survived and really quite the opposite as well.

Before his journey-as we all probably know before going on a four month hike-he researched a lot about the park and about what sort of wild life he could encounter. He also spent a lot of money on equipment. Do you think he went on his journey alone? Well of course not. Who do know would go hiking through the woods alone??? He calls a whole bunch of his friends and only one of them decides to go with him. His name is Stephan Katz which was Bryson's hiking partner through Europe in an earlier book he wrote.

Bryson describes his journey in great detail but not only that he gives some history about the trail. You can witness things that you couldn't even imagine of while you are watching a movie. Bryson's sarcasm (which is really quite humorous) and his wonderful description of his surroundings makes this book fun to read. You can experience his humor for example in this quote: "Do you know what that was, Bryson? Cream soda. You know what else? I'm drinking it right now..." Bryson continuously descibes his hiking partner as a little child. Katz still complains that he wasn't able to watch the X-files and this makes him sound like a four year old instead of a forty-five year old. Bryson ends the explaination by saying, "Man, that was so good. Now --- you and good night."

After reading only a hundred pages of the book, it has really caught my attention. i highly recommed this book because it will cause you to roll on the floor laughing.

Facing Up By Bear Grylls

This book is written by Bear Grylls, a famous adventurer, writer and TV presenter. This book is about Bear Grylls going on a remarkable journey to the summit of Mt. Everest. In this story, Bear Grylls (author) wrote about his life experiences in the special force and childhood. Before Bear Grylls decided to 'conquer' Mt. Everest, he spent three months in the hospital in Africa, due to a broken vertebrae, caused by an accident when landing with a parachute. Eight months after the accident, he quit the special force.

Bear Grylls then have the idea of 'conquering' Mt. Everest, since he has recovered gradually throughout the year. He and his friend, Neil Laughton then decided to aim for the Indian Army, to gain access to the Himalayan Mountains. The expedition leader was Neil Laughton, as Neil has a great amount of experience on Mt. Everest as he had once organized an expedition, but failed due to a huge number of deaths.

I recommend this book as the author, Bear Grylls, used techniques like imagery, to depict the where he went and so on.

Inti Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

When Jon Krakauer, the narrator, had finally reached the summit of Mt. Everest successfully. On May 10, 1996, his teammates hadn't sleep for at least fifty-seven hours and they were all tormented by effects of oxygen depletion.

Therefore, this disaster ended with a disaster where his teammates perished one after another. How could Jon Krakauer manage to survive through this freezing inferno to tell the story?

The quote that I liked the best within this book is the following: "Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet..." In this quote, the author used strong imagery like magnets to attract the readers into the story. Therefore, it makes you feel like if you are just standing beside the narrator also starring into the vastness.

This author's style of informing story is more than just story-telling. It is also pulling the readers into the actually place where you can feel your skin getting ripped by the coldness of Mt. Everest or the brain-altering effects of lack of oxygen.

Bill Bryson- Neither Here Nor There

In this novel, Bill Bryson writes down his recent travel across Europe, revisiting places he'd been to as a teenager- including the restaurant he and his wife had eaten at during their first honeymoon. He includes his personal- and strong- opinions of just about everyone, everything, and everywhere in the trip in the funniest ways imaginable (though some readers may occasionally find a rather offensive comment within the book). The reader of this article may like to note that there is a bit of an abundance of swear words within the book's 250 or so pages.
This is definitely one of the funniest non-fiction books in existence. Bill Bryson's informal and sarcastic style presents all his personal accounts and memories in an incredibly funny manner (e.g. "I was sitting beside the heater, so that while chill drafts teased my upper extremities, my left leg grew so hot that I could hear the hairs on it crackle. The seats were designed by a dwarf seeking revenge on full- sized people; there was no other explanation"). I haven't exactly finished reading the book yet, but that's be one of my favorite quotes so far.
As a message to all readers who do not yet believe that a simple travel book could 'out-funny' a bookful of jokes compiled by a bunch of experienced comedians, read this at all cost. It will literally instantly erase all preassumptions that non-fiction books have to be dull and purely informative texts.
A highly recommended book.

Field Trip to Niagara Falls

This book is about a mouse called Geronimo Stilton took his nephew Benjamin Stilton to school. The teacher said that they are going to a field trip, so she wrote the place. But suddenly, someone push Geronimo and his glasses fell on to the floor. So he can't see very care that what did the teacher wrote on the board. He thought it is the place he work at, THE RODENT GAZZETTE, a place that makes newspaper. So he said OK very guickly. Then, he finally found his glasses on the floor and put it on. But he saw the board says Niagara Falls.The teacher told the children that today Geronimo Stilton is taking us to Niagara Falls from Canada.

Are You There God? Its me, Margaret by Judy Blume.

This is a book I read when I was 12, it was my birthday present from my friend's mom. For girls, we go through puberty when we're 12 (well, on average) and my friend's mom thought that it was a "guide" for me, and the book did help me. Its also about religious intolerance, like against Jewish and etc.

This book is basically about this girl named Margaret who's in sixth grade and has no religion. And throughout the book you can see the process and the problems she faced during her quest for a single religion. She's also confronted by many preteen females issues such as buying her first bra, having her first period and coping with belted sanitary pads, jealousy towards another girl who has developed womanly figure earlier than others, liking boys and voicing opinions if it differs from other girlfriends.

The book is quite simple so that's all I can say about the book or else there won't be any surprise when you read it. :) I recommend young girls to read it like, Year 5-7s. don't really recommend boys it read it, of course.