A review by louiza_read2live
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

3.0

Part of it hilarious and part of it informative. A good read overall, but I felt it dragged a little too long and in some parts the writing got tedious. Also, I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting as I haven't read anything else of this (travel writing) genre but by looking at the title and the cover, my imagination seems to have gone a little further than what the book is about. I wouldn't say I was disappointed, but at some point I did get the feeling about their hike of "Oh that's it?"

One thing that I found somewhat disconcerting is the author's attitude towards other people. I can hardly recall just one person (maybe two) among all the people he encountered on the trail and in the towns he visited that he didn't think they were dumb, incompetent, or just dull.