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Title: Self-involved couple make for poor reading...
Review: Just finished this book and was greatly disappointed. Rubin is exactly the kind of self-involved, arrogent charcter that I dread running into while hiking.Furthere, are we supposed to feel sympathy for this wife? The longest these two are apart is six weeks yet she manages to pout, faint and cry hysterically due to the "stress" of being seperated from her husband. Anyone who has a parent or spouse in the military, foreign service or on a mission or has been in a long distance relationship will find her inability to deal with life on her own for short periods of time tiresome and pathetic.In the meantime, Rubin dishes out just enough guilt so that we don't "blame" him for his spouses hysteria, yet obviously doesn't care enough about her to get off the trail.This is more a tale of a very unhealthy marriage than of a journey on a beaten path. Less melodrama and more focus on the trail itself would have helped.
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