Title: Hiking??
Product review: Having only recently finished this book, the antagonism it bought me is still fresh in my mind. A hiker myself, I was a little surprised at the whole 'eating in restaurants and sleeping hotels' thing...its one thing to go hiking, its another to stop in for a bit of 3 star luxury every week or so. And he calls himself a hiker.The incessant paragraphs/half chapters about the ins and outs of the trail's history, nature and scientific breakdown drove me up the wall. If I wanted to know about the flora and fauna of the Appalachian Trail and the greater part of North America I would have purchased a book on the subject. I found myself thinking that if the actual trail-log parts were the only parts to be published (and I must say they WERE well written and DID bring a laugh), it would amount to about 50 pages and could have been read in a few hours rather than days.All in all, the sarcasm and humour were well written, but it was a somewhat frustrating piece of reading.
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