Larry McMurtry/Bill Bryson

Have any of you read Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen. I would be most interested in any comments that any of you might have. McMurtry writes a wonderful little book about how he accumulated his literary credentials -- reading, reading, reading at the Archer City Texas, Dairy Queen -- voraciously devouring even obscure -- at least to me -- German Philosophers such as Walter Benjamin. I believe that one measure of a true intellectual is the ability to make the most difficult material appear simple. That he does.

Bill Bryson also just did it with the entire body of current scientific knowledge in the Short History of Almost Everything Remarkable writer.