This book isn't much fun. It's not much of a book either. The whole thing is a list of birds the author saw and musings on the lousy food he ate. The narrative doesn't flow well. One minute the author is a boy mowing the grass the next minute he's an astronomer and then a few chapters later he has a family. When he mentions the family I thought wait a minute, he just graduated and got a job, didn't he?I had to force myself to finish it.