Title: Humour on the expense of almost everyone
Product review: With great expectation I purchased this book hoping, naively, that it would be a hommage to the AT. It begins with a very good sense of humour, which, unfortunately, turns annoying after about the first half of the book, when the reader gets rather tired of all the negative descriptions of what the author encounters on his way along the AT. Very disappointing is that despite great announcements at the beginning of the book, Bryson actually never really hikes the whole trail, and apart from a small episode where, due to his own mispreparation, he gets a little cold a the top of one mountain in New Hampshire, nothing, absolutely nothing exciting happens. And as to his appreciation of nature, Bryson truely fails to convince the reader of his ability to give a balanced picture. In the end, the book makes fun of almost everything and everyone. If he is so appalled by the AT conference, what about some constructive criticism? The book is not worth the while!
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