Re: [Paddlewise] (Getting OT) Book suggestions

In a message dated 11/12/1999 10:27:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
jaf30_at_cornell.edu writes:

<< With all the good books available about hiking the AT, I don't understand
 >why so many people think that this piece of junk is such a good book. It's
 >mostly full of incompetence and insensitivity, and that's how that guy
 >writes.
 
<< Perhaps that's because the book isn't really *about* hiking the AT, as much
 as it is about his personal life experiences, which included hiking on the 
AT.
 I don't think "A Walk In The Woods" is any more about how to hike the AT
 anymore than "A Perfect Storm" is about how to run a commercial fishing 
boat. >>

YES!!!  Am more than half-way through Storm and have recently re-read Walk in 
the Woods.  Lighten up, John, Bryson is very humorous.  As he put it, they 
were going to hike the AT, just not all of it.  Can't wait to read more of 
his books.

And I'm wondering why on earth I'm reading a book about fishing (moi who was 
married to a sports fisherman who lives in Key Largo and always feel sorry 
for the fish!).  The answer is because it's a damned good read (and the whole 
Pwise world :) recommended it!).

Sandy Kramer

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