I once overheard some Australians talking about Bryson's Australian memoirs. Both of the Aussies liked his book, but one of them pointed out that Bryson turns the act of leaving shallow water somewhere near Bondi beach, Sydney, into an epic struggle. So I'm grateful for the detailed accounts of bear...
3 stars The best parts of the book turned out to be the first and last sections, where both the author and Katz hiked together. The middle section drug on, almost torturing us, like that section of the AT in Pennsylvania. The last part, where Katz went missing, I felt, was very well written. Bryso...
Bill Bryson's international breakout--as the 100,000+ ratings on Goodreads demonstrates. Bryson demonstrates that one catches more flies with honey than vinegar? a sweet, charming work reflecting the Mr. Nice Guy personality that Bryson clearly is, complete with a nice writer's foil in the trail par...
I would have sympathised more with Bryson's cause, had he not decided to skip a few hundred miles along a difficult portion of the trail, only because he did not feel like doing it. Despite that, he decided to cast himself as the hero of the piece while poor Katz remains a comfortable second fiddle,...
This is what I learned from my trimester of British Literature in high school: Don’t go in the woods.My teacher legitimately held that statement as the thesis of the course. That speaks to the inadequacy of the American public school system, but that’s neither here nor there. In the Brit Lit course,...
I didn't like this book that much. Normally I like Bill Bryson but there was just too much of the same over and over here. Crap, they didn't even walk hardly a fraction of the trail. There was precious little rediscovering America as well. Instead we get a sort of rambling monologue about how dr...
A Hilarious Series of Misadventures, History Lesson, and Buddy Tale All in OneI don't think I'm ever NOT reading this book--it's one of the 5 I would take to a desert island. First book I remember that made me laugh out loud until I cried. Lewis and Clark meet Laurel and Hardy, by way of Mark Twain....
“A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail” is by one of my all time favorite authors and native Iowan, Bill Bryson. Upon returning to the United States after living in England for twenty years, Bryson and his family settled in New Hampshire, where one day he came upon a p...
I've heard about how "hilarious" Bill Bryson and his books are, so I went into this with hope for an entertaining and funny read. While I did really appreciate the author's passion for history and sharing it with geographical context of the Appalachian Trail (AT), there was nothing funny about this ...
Slighter than I remembered, and not as funny. Bryson's voice is engaging and endearing, his anecdotes about the trail and the surrounding history are all well and good- but somehow I finished the book without a real feel for the trail. I'm not sure I can articulate my discontent clearly, but it fel...
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