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Title: Total disapointment
Review: The prologue was so appealing that with every page of the book, I expected to find some meat, some wisdom, some significant observations. But the entire book was shallow popcorn. It's a story of a middle-aged man who goes off to a cottage in remote - Alaska? (no, upstate New York) to abandon civilization for a taste of near-monastic life (complete with his Apple Powerbook, internet connection, Primestar satellite and pay-per view movies). One high point is when he learns to trap - bears?, no, field mice! A sample-in the last chapter we learn the author wakes early, write for a while, has a tuna sandwich, drives to a Vermont bookstore, visits a public forest, goes to another bookstore. And then writes, and I quote, "I had the virtuous tiredness that comes when you've done something demanding but healthy and feel entitled to rest". OH PLEASE!
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