…..Not so much a concise book, as a slightly largish magazine feature. It has the wry observation, and the witty descriptions that is Bill Bryson's trademark .. but it isn't an involving read. And much like nicely written features for In flight magazines - there isn't too much to object to, at the same time there isn't too much that you retain.
I don't know too much more about Shakespeare now, than I knew earlier. But, what little there is , is told nicely. It is more a nice brisk travelogue through the lives & times of William Shakespeare than a biography.
I much preferred A Short History of Almost Everything or a I'm a Stranger Here Myself . It isn't that I didn't like the book — it is just that i have no memories of anything that I read :)
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