Frost on My Moustache Review

A very funny travel book that will offend Icelanders!
Tim Moore has written one of the best travel books Ive read in the last five years. His humour is contagious and one finds oneself urging him on as he battles across the northern seas in the footsteps of a 19th Century British aristocrat. Icelanders with a sense of humour about their own countrys idiosyncrasies will find the book a delight. The remaining 98% of the population will demand the author is detained and given the full bottom inspection treatment next time he passes through Reykjavik airport. If you enjoy Bryson then you will enjoy Moore. Moore is as funny but is significantly more insightful and ruder!

Side-splittingly funny
Tim Moores first and (so far) best book is the tale of a modern Everyman from London trying to master Arctic nature and Icelandic and Norwegian culture. A friend gave me this book for my birthday, and I spend a whole sleepless night chortling and giggling in my bed. Ive taken the book with me on the bus for rereading, and my involuntary silly smiles and occasional outbursts of laughter has earned me looks from other passengers. In short, this is a very funny book indeed.

Some reviewers have complained that Moore is too negative. Well, at least hes open about his shortcomings. I believe that some traits are also played up for their comic effect. Hes also good at capturing that special low-level paranoia that a lot of tourists and travellers display when abroad. Finally, I have to admit that a lot of the things he has to say about Scandinavians are very true.

They dont come much better than this.
A dangerous book to read in public... you will get some odd looks. This is possibly the funniest book I have read. I cant think of one that has made me laugh more. The idea is very engaging... Tim Moore tries to follow in the footsteps of an eccentric adventurer and in so doing casts himself as the hopelessly inept traveller, who achieves his task more by luck than judgement. He makes himself the target of some extremely funny, humiliating and indeed hairy situations, griping and moaning self-pityingly all the way... and the result is hysterical. He has a great style too: easy to read... sometimes whimsical, sometimes gritty. Always entertaining. A genuine adventure.

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