A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike (Bryson, 8)

A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike (Bryson, 8)

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In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing tics, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack.

Facing savage weather, merciless insects, unreliable maps and a fickle companion whose profoundest wish was to go to a motel and watch The X-Files, Bryson gamely struggled through the wilderness to achieve a lifetime's ambition - not to die outdoors.
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As with my first book by the author, I'm very divided about whether it's interesting or boringly unfunny to me. The author has again gathered a lot of historical, environmental and other facts which were interesting, surprising or fascinating, or all three. In some parts, his anecdotes about his actual personal hiking experience on the Appalachian Trail were relatable from my own experience (though on a different trail). But mostly his anecdotes were, as in the previous book I read, boring, annoying and not very humourous - or all three at once. So I suppose I can conclude that Bill Bryson as an author just isn't for me.

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