Although, as a rule I prefer to read fiction, there are some exceptions, travel books being one. I like to read about places people went to, learn about their opinions on them, and then, if my travels take me to the same place, compare my impressions to theirs. Before my trip to Australia a few years back, I was given Bill Bryson's book Down Under. Some time after that I found another of his books in a second hand book shop, I liked it even more than the first one and it just went from there... As a non-native English speaker I especially enjoy his unique and fresh usage of the English language, which makes his books so effortlessly funny in a way that reminds me of another of my favorite writers, J.K.Jerome.
In spite of what I have just written, Bill Bryson's book I enjoyed the most, The Life and times of a Thunderbolt Kid, is not a travel book, or maybe it is, but a different kind: traveling back in time and reminiscing about the author's childhood.
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