Reviews for Dissent in three American wars

The average rating for Dissent in three American wars based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-01-03 00:00:00 Tom Audio Bill Bryson is like the Abba of books. Everyone, your granny and your kid's teacher and your babysitter, and your mum's friends, everybody has a couple they really like and they probably have Bill Bryson's Greatest Hits on the cd shelf too. Safest present to give to someone you know very little about : a Bill Bryson book. Oh, everyone loves him Didn't he do Dancing Queen? We danced to Notes from a Small Island at our wedding. Oh did you - A Short History of Nearly Everything was "our book". I'm in the middle of reading Knowing Me Knowing You (A Ha!) - they're so funny. And those two Bills they've got singing, well, I really fancy the blonde one. So if you get my hand in a vice and start turning the handle then I'll admit between gritted teeth that Bill can write some tuneful melodies and Abba are occasionally amusing. There. Now can I have my hand back. gimme gimme gimme something bland after midnight Now... you may think I'm joking but look here:

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-01 00:00:00 Ruth Settle I'm up to Benjamin Franklin and frankly Ben, I've had enough of you and this book. I usually like Bryson's writing style, but the fruity self-congratulatory tone of this is irritating. Also, I think if you are an American you might be a great deal more interested in the entire of history of America as experienced by European settlers than I am. No 'might' about it, of course you are, its your country. Me, sorry, but I couldn't care less. Does that sound almost sacrilegious to you? Ask yourself this, what interest do you have in Caribbean history (somewhat, but not entirely, boring) or worse, much worse, Welsh history, since its not exactly a history of a get-up-and-go people who Did Great Things (they liked to sing a lot and annoy the English essentially). Now I like history, I do, especially books by people like Liza Picard and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, but they tend to keep politicians out of it. Nothing bores like reading political squabbles, at least to me. Also, the Indians, in whom I have a major interest as all I know about them is war, ceremonies and their problems with alcohol and success with gambling, are dismissed by Bryson with just a little about their linguistic contribution to American English. I'm not saying its not a good book, I've never read a bad Bryson one, but its just plain boring to me and life is too short and books too many to bother finishing it.