Reading is one of life’s greatest pleasures, paging into Billy Connolly's book The Rambling Man is reading pleasure at its best.
If you like storytelling, Connolly does it in an exceptionally tantalising manner. It reads like a television script, of sorts.
Reading is one of life’s greatest pleasures, paging into new worlds, thoughts, and adventures of a fictional and real-life kind. After all, well before reality television and the Kardashians, books told us stories. Pages related the lives of the rich, famous and adventurous. Reading helps us through dark days, naughty days, teaching us lessons, shared experiences and well, so much more.is an autobiographical work that details many of his adventures around the world.
And the book is full of stories and anecdotes. If you like storytelling, Connolly does it in an exceptionally tantalising manner. It reads like a television script, of sorts. His writing ability can take you from his work as a welder on the shipyards of Glasgow to biking along Route 66 in America in an instant. Tales of his initial ambition as a folk singer segues to how he was told that his humour sucked by some nosey non-fan.
Desk jockeys, adventure fantasists and armchair rebels will love his tales of cause, of travel and the impact that the suffrage of others have had on his consciousness. The book is also incredibly funny, with his wee humour relatable in so many ways. Do not skip over his adventures in Canada with the Inuit and his rediscovery of the Northern Passage.
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