![]() ![]() "There is no shortage of idiots - which is why Down Under will sell thousands more copies than Anglo-Australian Attitudes." If he had bravely reversed his percentages, perhaps the public - surely not as idiotic as he suggests - might have been more likely to follow suit. Sanderson much preferred the latter, yet devoted only 15 per cent of his review to it. ![]() He reviewed the new Bryson alongside another book about Australia, Michael Davie's Anglo-Australian Attitudes. ![]() You can hate him, but you can't ignore him, as Sanderson proved. With an ego the size of Ayer's Rock, he seems to think God's Own Country needs the help of a patronising American." He prefers bookshelves to backpacks he goes in search of clichÂs rather than new experiences. Amazingly, Mark Sanderson, in the London Evening Standard, was even more vituperative than Lette: "Australia is big, far too sunny and mostly empty: no wonder Bill Bryson feels it is his kind of place. Readers love Bryson some critics spit with hatred. ![]()
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