Title: A Real Bummer
Product review: Hiking the AT is long, arduous, and trying experience, and so is reading this book. I make it a point to finish every book I start, but the first 26 pages of detailed, creepy episodes with one of her ex-boyfriends almost stopped me there. Then when she gets to the trail, it is continuous complaining. Everyone on the trail complains--its only natural--but Ms. Winters makes a point of doing it. There are few people in the book with whom she doesn't have a problem. Like Bill Bryson, she doesn't finish the trail either, but at least Bryson was entertaining, even when he complained.The only bright spot I found in this book was Winters' knowledge of plants. She seems to have a great appreciation for the outdoors, but that gets pushed aside for her copious physical and mental agonies. If you are a woman seeking another's account of the trail, try Adrienne Hall, Jean Deeds, or somebody else. Even better, try Earl Shaffer's Walking With Spring, the best account of all.
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