Australia By Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything also by Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson, has received two chances; Australia published in May 2001, and A Short History of Nearly Everything published September 2004. I enjoyed the material but felt so overwhelmed... it was terrible. I am, a bit of a reading freak. I don't get overwhelmed at least, not until Bill Bryson Came along.. He crams so much information onto a page that I CAN'T TAKE IT ALL IN. I re-read countless pages trying to understand a few paragraphs. It wasn't extremely complicated, there was just too much! It took me weeks to finish both the books, that's shameful. I finished Kite Runner in one school day, it was amazing, by the way. However I cannot get through Anything by Bill Byrson. Maybe its nonfiction in general? Look at these sentences, "The first attempt at measurement that could be remotely scientific was made by the Frenchmen Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, in the 1770's. It had been long known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat-that was apparent to anyone who went down a coalmine-but there wasn't any way of estimating the rate of dissipation. Bryson includes so many dates and names it is almost impossible to keep track. You're doing well if you remember a first name at the end of the chapter. It possible he writes about so many that you can pick and choose you're favorites to remember. Maybe he intends for you to not remember them all? Does he? It would be hell to be his editor. Imagine checking all those facts.