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Title: The Road to Little Dribbling
Subtitle: More Notes From a Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
Narrator: Nathan Osgood
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-08-15
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 47 votes
Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration
Publisher's Summary:
Twenty years ago Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nations heart and became the best-selling travel book ever and was voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.
Now, to mark the 20th anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey around Britain to see what has changed. Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, by way of places that many people never get to at all, Bryson sets out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly unique country that he thought he knew but doesnt altogether recognize any more.
Yet, despite Britains occasional failings and more or less eternal bewilderments, Bill Bryson is still pleased to call our rainy island home. And not just because of the cream teas, a noble history, and an extra day off at Christmas.
Once again, with his matchless homing instinct for the funniest and quirkiest, his unerring eye for the idiotic, the endearing, the ridiculous and the scandalous, Bryson gives us an acute and perceptive insight into all that is best and worst about Britain today.
Download includes accompanying PDF map of the Bryson Line. Music written and performed by Richard Digance, inspired by The Road to Little Dribbling.
Members Reviews:
Vintage Bill Bryson!
For those who thought Notes from a Small Island was theor favorite Bryson, you should know he has done a sequel which is even better. Meet the old man Bryson. More caustic wit which couldn't have mature better
The narrator is brilliant. Loved it!
I am a Bryson fan girl so of course I loved the book but the narrator, Nathan Osgood, made it so much better! I heard and re-heard some parts because they were so impeccable.
In search of the adjective in the sentence
What disappointed you about The Road to Little Dribbling?
Really annoying read.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Chosen a reader who got the style.
How could the performance have been better?
This reader thought he was reading a thriller not a laconic, witty travelogue. It sounded as though he had been handed the book 30 secs before the read - the sentences took him by surprise or, maybe, he just has no idea of the structure of a sentence. So often the emphasis would be on the noun rather than the adjective - greenBELT, roundABOUT. The only saving grace was that he had swotted up on how to pronounce the place names correctly. But the style of the book was, clearly, a complete mystery to him.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Road to Little Dribbling?
No editing, just a producer.
Any additional comments?
Has Bill Bryson heard this audio book?
Grave Disappointment
What would have made The Road to Little Dribbling better?
A strong infusion of Bryson's wit and eye for oddity -- from 15 years back.
You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Certainly - anything by Bryson is worth looking at.
Any additional comments?
I bow to nobody in my admiration for Bryson. I've read all his books as they came out and there are comic scenes in many of them that made me laugh out loud - a rare thing.