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Title: Not What I Expected
Review: After 189 pages I just couldn't take it anymore. I've read everything I can get my hands on that can about hiking the AT but I couldn't finish this book because I got so tired of the constant boozing, misogynistic behavior and self-absorbed monologues. The author is nearing 40 but sounds like a college student. His negativity - constantly putting down the people he meets along the way (except for the bedable women) and making gross generalizations about folks on and off the trail - was grating and disturbing. I don't really get why this book got such high marks for the writing. I found his thoughts disorganized and unfinished, fragmented and, at times reading like "brain salad" rants.But it looks like lots of other folks like the book, so there must be a market for this stuff.
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