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 enlarge | Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  968 reviews
Sales Rank: 5662
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0767902521
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.40443
EAN: 9780767902526
ASIN: 0767902521
Publication Date: May 4, 1999
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 Hilarious! May 31, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My dad recommended this book to me and I must say I was skeptical at first. However, after reading only a few pages, I was finding it very difficult to put down. It's not only a terrific account of 2 men hiking the Appalachian Trail, it's one of the funniest books, if not the funniest, I've ever read. I was reading it on an airplane and could barely keep from laughing out loud. I highly recommend this book!
Thought-provoking May 19, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A slow read, simply because you stop and think about the evil Forest Service, Centralia, hypothermia and American chestnut trees. Maybe more serious than other Bryson works.
A Walk In the Woods May 13, 2007
This is an EXCELLENT book for the hiker or vicarios hiker-- I am both, and thoroughly enjoyed Bryson's accountting of his hike up the Appalachian Trail with his former college buddy Stephen Katz. The trek was undertaken as Bryson neared his 50th birthday, and is a crash course on anything and everything that can go right and wrong on a hike. I couldn't put the book down once i started reading it, and have bought and given away several subsequent copies to frinds of like interests. "A Walk in the Woods encompasses the love of being out in Nature, the finite details of selecting proper hiking and camping equipment, various foibles and spats between fellow hikers, weather predicaments, environmental soapbox speeches, history, geography, and LOTS of funny scenaria!
Gut-wrenching laughter May 7, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was my first introduction to Bill Bryson's writing. Afterwards I bought everything else he wrote, but this is my favorite. Though I enjoyed ALL the book jackets. Really fun. Whoever designs his book covers has a great sense of humor.
All of Bill Bryson's writing is funny, but this is his best. I think his traveling companion, the crazy Katz, made the book. He played the Gracie Allen role to Bryson's George Burns style of dry commentary.
This book is hilarious. Even though I read the book the day my house sold to pay off a landfill-sized pile of debt I laughed until my stomach ached from gasping for air. Bill Bryson could make me laugh out loud even as I sat reading on a bare hardwood floor in an empty room as movers hauled away my life, piece by piece. (The movers thought I was nuts.) What a talent, what a gift--to be able to make someone laugh during a personal disaster. I love this book, especially the sarcasm.
I loved this book April 29, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the first book I read by Bill Bryson. I loved it so much that I have read others by the same author. The one reason why I loved this book so much was because I loved his sense of humor. When I began reading the book I already knew that he did not successfully complete the AT, but that did not at all effect my enjoyment of the book.
I am an avid hiker throughout the country. I have a great knowledgebase of how to hike and backpack and I have been in some of the areas hiking and visiting that Bill Bryson described in this book. I have been in the Smokies, Shenandoah, The White Mountains, and Hanover, NH. I thought he described these places so nicely. I felt as if I was revisiting these places again. I thought his description of Gatlinburg, TN was hilarious because when I drove through that town I was making some of the same wisecracks to my friends about what a joke of a place it was.
The story is real nice but what adds to the story is the scientific descriptions of areas. This I felt added to the book rather than detracted from it.
The one thing I disagreed with Bill on this book was his description of black bears early on in the book. He seemed very afraid of them and to me it was fear mongering that leads to them getting a bad rep. I have encountered them a number of times in my hiking experiences and have never had a problem. In fact they are my favorite animals to observe and watch. Even with this disagreement it does not affect my rating for this book because I still thought it was terrific.
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