I'm from UK and I don't do idols, but i once took a detour on a US drive from SD to Philidephia to include Des Moines because I wanted to see the city where Bill Bryson grew up.
@mfranssens2 ай бұрын
Qudos, I’ve wanted to see where Bill grew up. He describes it so well in his books. I’m also from the UK.
@dannypaterson8882 ай бұрын
@mfranssens It was a lot bigger than I expected. Probably naively, I was expecting a town. It was, in fact, by 2012 anyway, a large modern city.
@mfranssens2 ай бұрын
@@dannypaterson888 I’ll pass. 😂 You saved me a long detour. He made it sound like a rural idyll. His grandpa watching tornadoes in the distance. Lemonade on the wraparound wooden porch. Sleeping out there on hot summer nights. If it’s all changed and small town America has disappeared, probably not worth going there to be disappointed.
@BarbaraBylow8 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting this. I do adore Bryson's work.
@jandrabeeston46047 ай бұрын
Thoroughly researched, superbly written, compellingly read by this wonderful author. Thank you, Mr Bryson.
@MrLeedebt6 ай бұрын
I couldn't agree more. The other night I browsed through BB's Made in America. To his enormous credit, he doesn't accept what is commonly thought to be the truth regarding a past event or an individual.
@KathleenHudd8 ай бұрын
This is so interesting. Thank you for posting.
@scottrussell58663 ай бұрын
I love this. Before I retired, I had a colleague devoted to some alternate Shakespeare hypothesis because he was related to the alternate. Lame and pathetic. Thank you, Bryson.
@denisthemenace.5 ай бұрын
Wonderful, thanks very much
@justintaisenchoy15 күн бұрын
Please add visuals to this Narration. It would be brilliant 👏 ❤
@horationelson573 ай бұрын
Smashing idea, running this engaging audiobook with background visuals/ video. Thanks for your effort! ☺
@davidcox89457 ай бұрын
Brilliant
@j8rtUfh3evz2 ай бұрын
Its an interesting book, re-reading it again as i write this. Considering how many people lived in England and the Americans hadn't yet been found, the majority of us white anglo Saxon Brits will, somewhere, have unrecorded ancestors who were living and breathing at the same time as William Shakespe. The population then was only 3-5 million, depending on wars/plague.
@amehak19227 ай бұрын
The furniture in the museum is his original stuff from when he lived there. Wood can last hundreds (occasionally thousands) of years as long as it's consistently dry or wet (it can last many thousands wet).
@seltonk51368 ай бұрын
King Henry Part 6 is the best of the King Henry franchise
@1evonvielen6 ай бұрын
Wait, do you mean Henry VI (but which part? There are 3) or the 6th Henry-play (but in which order? IV to VIII or in the chronology it was written? VI, IV, V, VIII?). Im so confused but I really wanna know :D
@seltonk51366 ай бұрын
@@1evonvielen Leonard part 6
@davidhull14814 ай бұрын
@@seltonk5136Very mature.
@seltonk51364 ай бұрын
@@davidhull1481 did you see Leonard part six?
@davidhull14814 ай бұрын
@@seltonk5136 It’s got fuck all to do with this, so stop being a plank.
@domkelly19724 ай бұрын
They were not firing live muskets!! 1:46. Think about it for a millisecond as to why.? Why even bother to fire live rounds. Its not required for the effect of gunfire and its a real pain to load each time so of course they were not firing loaded weapons. Must have been some story that spread after something else caused the deaths. Its entirely possible that a poorly packed musket could fire off some debris at very close range to cause injury even if not loaded with a projectile. Its not as if they had a reliable account if the interior of the building but the account of a live round going off into the crowd is gospel truth!! 😂😂😂😂. Of course they did not fire live rounds. Get a grip.
@veronicamaine38133 ай бұрын
Dude calm down - it’s a book. The historical record implies that something quite lethal fired out of the musket since it killed 2 people.whose to say they didn’t just use a real gun that happened to be loaded for real (intentionally or not). Considering the globe burnt down because of canon fire it’s hardly that far fetched
@JustSOMediaАй бұрын
AI read - not by Bryson.
@CraigMaxwell-gz3vwКүн бұрын
Well, it’s written by Bill Bryson and it sounds exactly like him so that’s good enough for me