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This book is very much in the fashion of his Short History of Nearly Everything. It contains almost no first person narrative and mostly tries to adhere topic. The topic is so broad, however, that almost anything can be in some way connected to it and at times it feels a bit sprawling. That the stories bear some passing connection to the topic is hardly surprising. It would be hard not to. But, I didn’t read this book as a scholarly work. I wouldn’t want to read that book. Bill Bryson’s talent for selecting the funniest, remarkable, shocking, gruesome and just plain interesting things about any topic, means that if he wrote a book about the history of fingernails, or hammers or shoelaces, I would read it.My one serious gripe with the book is the lack of illustrations. There are some pictures, but countless other times, when he’s describing some invention, or article of clothing, or building, and going on about how remarkable it is, I found myself running to wikipedia to see



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