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Loading... A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1997)by Bill Bryson
  
» 21 more Favourite Books (248) Top Five Books of 2014 (151) Unread books (186) Books tagged favorites (120) Books Read in 2014 (1,112) Sense of place (43) Books I've read (35) Carole's List (295) Unshelved Book Clubs (11) No current Talk conversations about this book. https://walkwiththerock.wordpress.com/2015/09/13/book-review-a-walk-in-the-woods-by-bill-bryson/  HommelFamily | Jun 10, 2017 |  [Contains spoilers]. It's tittersome in the usual Bryson style, but the gag density seemed a lot lower than the others of his. It's best in the early chapters as the largely ill-prepared Bryson and Katz head off on the Trail together. It loses its way when the trip is abandoned about halfway through the book; solo Bryson is less funny than the Bryson/Katz double-act, and it begins to feel like a series of Wikipedia entries as Bryson explores the Trail in sections alone. When Katz rejoins Bryson late on to walk the final part of the Trail it feels like too little, too late, and once again the walk is abandoned before the goal is reached. This broken narrative about an unsuccessful adventure left me feeling mildly dissatisfied. Oh, and avoid the film adaptation, which is bloody awful. (  ) PeterCrump | Apr 14, 2017 | Funny, witty, interesting, and educational. What more could you want? (  ) jtsolakos | Mar 20, 2017 | This is a very entertaining account of Bryson's experience hiking the Appalachian Trail with out-of-shape friend, Katz. He covers a lot of ground (pun intended) although it seems he made the trek broken up into segments. He includes information about how the trail is maintained, ecology, and history. He was funny without being silly, informative without droning on. Up to the usual Bryson high standards. (  ) VivienneR | Feb 16, 2017 | This was an all-around fun-book; The reader learns a bit about the Appalachian Trail and the 'sport' of hiking. Also, the author threw in enough colorful characterizations to keep it human and toughing in parts! I liked the book and would strongly recommend. ( ) JosephKing6602 | Feb 9, 2017 |
 Bryson's breezy, self-mocking tone may turn off readers who hanker for another ''Into Thin Air'' or ''Seven Years in Tibet.'' Others, however, may find themselves turning the pages with increasing amusement and anticipation as they discover that they're in the hands of a satirist of the first rank, one who writes (and walks) with Chaucerian brio.  [Bryson] was often exhausted, his ''brain like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying but not actually part of the body below.'' The reader, by contrast, is rarely anything but exhilarated. And you don't have to take a step.
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