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Review title: Bad writing, your time better spent elsewhere.
Product review: Got this book "free" when going the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) and I'm interested in the subject matter (hiking the AT), so I read it. Unfortunately, the majority of it I found to be self-indulgent, preachy, amateurish pap. Insipid pabulum. Passage after passage sure to make you wince if not heave. Okay, maybe that's a little harsh and to be fair there was _some_ good info on the history of the trail, but the ratio is something like 80% crap to 20% good stuff. Not worth it. Doesn't have the humor of Bill Bryson or the maturity and authority of John McPhee.
