Title: Egads, what a bore
Product review: Nope, I didn't get it. This book is the poster child for the "books by people with too much time on their hands" category. Bryson sells himself as an acute observer of the everyday -- the problem is, the everyday isn't always that interesting, and even when it is he doesn't do it justice. The first few pages were mildly interesting but the rest of the book went downhill from there. He might have done better had he actually walked the whole trail. The fact that he walked parts of it and spent a lot of time on breaks eating junk food pretty much sums up the quality of his writing.
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