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Title: Boring!
Review: Reading this book for a book club, I found it incredibly boring and superficial. Peter spends 3 days on the mountain with Homer and writes nothing of depth about this amazing mountain man. Peter's writing is pedestrian. He talks about wanting to discover America and yet only writes about people when someone else directs him to! Someone told him he had to go see Homer the Mountain Man. This was the first people story after 7 weeks of walking. Homer was a character and shared himself with Peter and yet Peter is insensitive and self-absorbed in his responses to Homer. The next story in the book written about actual people is when someone directs him to spend the night in the police station. There Peter talks to a Vietnam Vet. Peter writes that the Vet's stories would awaken a person from a 6 month coma and then writes NOTHING about those conversations. Wasted opportunities. The concept of the book is a great idea, but the writing is juvenile.
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