Title: Joe Average goes hiking
Product review: Mildly amusing, a little flaky. Besides not being able to fulfill his promise to himself, except for losing weight (which in his other books, I guess, is a very important thing to him - even to the point of judging other people) the author has done a minimal amount of research. History, geology, and life-sciences are alluded to in an abridged way in little lumps easily digested by slightly-better-educated people.Emerson he is not. The only character worth anything is Katz, a part-way companion. One gets the feeling that, by inserting 'Ecologically correct' paragraphs, he knows his nearly blank experiences (minus Katz) will sell the book by themselves.Hopefuly the author isn't just another "Tell them what they want to hear" hypocrite who knows how to sell books...anecdotes with 'changed names', as written, seem contrived on occasion.
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