The total (Great Britannic) chaos of irrelevant information

Brief note in advance, this book contains a lot of unknown in Germany, partly older English words and at least I had to look up terms because often what the reading fluency but very inhibited.

But now to the actual contents of the book. The title, as well as the chapter headings, you should not take too seriously better, yes, better still studiously ignore! It starts alone so that the first chapter of "The Year" means (The Year in English) and Bryson first time at length omits from 1851 the construction of the Glass Palace in London's Hyde Park. Even here we may well question subtly what may have to do with it. Nothing, to be exact. But precisely in this style, it goes on, so I'm telling you just full of Ernst: Do not take the headlines for full! Bryson is a master of string together many unknown and informative morsels and this to give a rough direction and sometimes a small transition, but never ever he approaches quasi the actual topics on closer than ten meters! Or perhaps rather hundreds. Moreover, there is the content of the book mostly from the glorification of the great periods of Britain and their achievements, other countries are still occasionally the USA and if somewhere before something happened that you really could not ignore, such as the discovery of Ötzi (what does that exactly again to do with the theme of the book?), then this is done rather than a short slot.

In his book "Highlights from America" ​​Bryson writes quite aptly in one of his posts, as very now his memory lets him down and he meandering can be found again and again in the house again and for traces of activity investigated, which was recently abandoned and continuation waiting. Something like this book because Bryson obviously knows on the next page is no longer what he has just written, and so this peculiar mixture is composed of topics, anecdotes and eccentricities that make up this book. One can read wonderful and also the typical humor is still very amusing, but I personally think it's better for human consumption if you let the meaning and intention of the book aside and it just hits the middle and starts to consume this endless chain of easily digestible morsels because frankly, in the order it is quite out of here!