Title: Another mid-life crisis book
Product review: I have hiked part of the trail and dream of doing the entire route. This is one of several AT hiking books I purchased because the title suggests it covered the trail. Bryson's book is entertaining, loaded with laughs and speckled with bits of trail pearls, but boils down to a story of two overweight smokers with midlife crises who try trail hiking. This is akin to two college dropouts writing about getting a graduate degree. You will learn little regarding backpacks, shoes, tents, sleeping bags or other equipment. You learn even less about how to condition yourself for distance hiking. This book was a let down for me because I expected something else. Reading about two big boys' ice cream cravings and littering the trail during a partial hike left me nonplussed.
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