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Summary: Reading the Trail
Review: Imagine, if you will, lying in the dark alone in a little tent, nothing but a few microns of trembling nylon between you and the chill night air, listening to a 400 pound bear moving around your campsite. Writing like this makes Bill Brysons A Walk in the Woods extremely fun to read. This book pulls you in and makes it hard to put the book down. This book has a great plot and is easy to follow. The plot will turn you and twist you just like the trail Bryson and his friend Katz are walking. The story tells you about the authors walk on the Appalachian Trail after living in England for twenty years. Each chapter gives you a brief history of the trail or the town the two friends are in. although that part is a little slow the plot is still great. The characters in this book are very well developed. For example "Katz is the only person I knew on earth who might be on the run from guys with names like Julio and Mr. Big." You can tell what kind of person Katz is from that one sentence. I feel as if I really knew these people, not that I had just read about them in some book. This book also has a lesson to it. It tells that if you are determined to do something you can do it. Bryson and his friend Katz were horribly out of shape but they did what they wanted to do and finished their goal. Over all I thought this was a great book. It met all my expectations of what a good book should have. In some parts it gets a little inappropriate but nothing really serious. I suggest that whoever reads this review should read it.
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Summary: A Walk in the Woods
Review: Loads of Laughs "I would blow my sphincter out of backside like one of those unrolling paper streamers you get at children's parties-I daresay it would be a merry toot-and bleed to a messy death in the sleeping bag." A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson offers a story of two guys who encounter comic and adventurous experiences while hiking the Appalachian Mountains. This book is extremely funny. The way they would talk to one another would just crack me up. It just shows they had a really good friendship. Sometimes Katz would wake up and ask Bill how did he look? Bill would reply, "like a piece of s&#@". It was also very easy to relate to. They didn't talk about how they finished it in 7 days. Katz would often point out that he was out of shape or too old. This gave the book a little better plot than just about these two guys who went on a journey and had a funny time. It made the book much more interesting. I would like for everyone to read this book. It was the funniest and most entertaining book I have ever read. It was; funny, adventurous, and emotional. If you read this book you will agree with me.
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Summary: Follow the Yellow Brick Road ...
Review: Bryson's 'A Walk in the Woods,' details the story of two ordinary, out-of-shape guys, who decide to hike the 2100 mile long Appalachian Trail. Full of adventure, hilarious characters they encounter along the way, interesting trail history, descriptions of astonishing landscapes, and laugh-out-loud comedy, while realistically depicting the trials of hiking America's most challenging and romantic hiking trail. 'A Walk in the Woods' is sure to entertain just about any sort of reader.
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Summary: its just a walk in the woods
Review: A Walk in the Woods "Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened on a path that vanished into wood on the edge of town" is a spectacular beginning by writer Bill Bryson of his ludicrous and whimsical experience of walking the AT or Appalachian Trail. In this memoir, Bill, our hero...ahem..cough...cough, CLAP!, has decide that a stroll of the great AT, running from Maine to Georgia or vice versa, sounded like fun. His friend named Katz joins him on this comical trip in the woods. His son, who has an after school job at an outfitter's, suggested that he buy his supplies there because of their large stock of materials for a hike in the woods. This is a very engaging and interesting book, but I would not recommend this book to a kid who still thinks sex, crap, and etc. are extremely bad words, unless you are a parent who enjoys making up definitions and trying reverse psychology on your children to think they didn't read that word at all, they dreamed it. Its appropriateness is the about the same as a PG-13 movie, for those people who don't know what PG-13 stands for, it stands for Parents Cautioned Some Material May By Inappropriate For Children Under 13. I read this book for a school report and I thought it was going to be boring because it was a true story. But I was totally wrong. Whatever you may be doing right now, stop and go to your nearest book store and buy this book. That order was mandatory, do it. Thank you for reading my review. I hope it informed you enough to read the book.
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Summary: What the hell am I doing at work!?
Review: Some travel books make you realize that life is too short. Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods" is one of these gems. Without making the reader feel inadequate, Bryson describes his slowly increasing desire to hike along the Appalachian trail. This trail winds its way from Georgia to Maine and has become the holy grail of hiking accomplishments for US enthusiasts. Bryson begins with an old friend, who ends up being just a bit wackier than Bryson remembers, to hike the trail with immense backpacks. The going is slow, tiring and thrilling. Slowly, Bryson overcomes his body's physical limitations (late middle age apparently having made its permanent physical presence known on the hapless Bryson) to find that he actually enjoys the up and down, the long winding trails and the distant green vistas. Although his timeline is ultimately thrown to the winds when he realizes he won't make it to Maine in one go, he hits the best part of the trail and describes it with his typical humor and creative wit. A good read, but wait til a cold, rainy day to read it so you don't long for the softly shaded, winding footpaths of the eastern mountain ranges.
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Summary: Hilarious and Funny it is just Great
Review: A Walk in the Woods will actually take you on a walk through the Appalachian Trail. This book by Bill Bryson is a hilarious way to learn about the Appalachian Mountains and their history. When you are done you will know all you would ever need to know about hiking the trail. Once you get into the book you will not be able to put it down. This story is about Brysons' walk with his "Friend" Katz through the Appalachians. Katz just happens to be a little bit over weight and and not in the perfect hiking shape. The last time they saw each other was on their trip to Europe where everything did not go quite how they planned and they ended up getting on each others nerves. As you could imagine this may not be the perfect little walk through the woods. Actually they were not only planning on going on a little walk through the woods this was some serious stuff they were going to hike through the Mountains for six months. At the beginning of the book the two "hikers" are enthusiastic and mostly ready to hike. By the first hour or so they are already tired and ready to sit down. After about a day or so they are already sick of the woods and ready to go home. So at this pace you can imagine how the story might turn out. This book is about Bryson and Katz and their struggle to escape the mountains and make it out alive. While walking the trail they meet many innocent and usually friendly people. They end up in plenty of very unusual situations. They walk through rivers and lakes, They run out of food, they meet a moose, they hitch hike with an unusual and drunk couple, and they also do tons of other hilarious stuff. This is one of my favorite books and probably one of the funniest I have ever read. On their way through he woods they learn stuff about themselves while encountering endless disasters. This story will pull you in while cracking you up. A walk in the woods is so detailed it is like actually hiking it. You get to know Bryson so well it is like you actually know him.
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Summary: I want to be one with nature
Review: Not since I did the 9 day intensive North Carolina Outward Bound have I felt so much a need to become one with nature again. Bill tells an extraordinarily interesting tale of walking, seeing, being, feeling, in the woods. A must read for lovers of nature sitting in office buildings around the world.
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Summary: A Walk Through the Book
Review: " 'I can't believe you left the Little Debbies' Katz said, immediately falling behind." Such comments show the fun Bill Bryson and his companion Katz had while hiking the Appalachian Trail. I think the book A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson is a great book. It's fun to read because it is a pager turner. One of the best qualities of A Walk in the Woods is the plot. It was fun andsuspenseful and always kept me reading. " I sat bolt upright. Instantly every neuron in my brain was awake and dashing around frantically, like ants when you disturb their nest." Quotes like that keeps me reading. Some parts of the story were slow though, such as this, "During the last ice age it experienced what geologist calls a priglacial climate." When I read that I think, Blah Blah Blah, I don't even know what Bryson is talking about. All in the entire plot was great though. Another good quality is the character development. Both Bill Bryson and Stephen Katz are very well developed. I fee like I know both of them as if they were close friends. " Plan B was we would kill Mary Ellen and take her pop tarts."This quote from the book, makes me feel like I know how the would deal with aproblem or joke around. All the characters in this story are well developed. The last but most important quality, in my opinion, is the meaning of the book. To me the meaning was Bryson sat a goal, the he went out and accomplished it. Bryson never gave up. In really life I can use that, follow through. Set your goals and accomplish them, never quit. The last line of the book shows this is true, "I don't care what anybody says. We hiked theAppalachian Trail." The book, A Walk in the Woods is a fun and exciting book. It has well developed characters, a great plot, and a meaning you can use in real life.I strongly recommend this book. If you'll excuse me I must go take a walk in the woods.
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Summary: Survivor
Review: The brisk wind blowing against my face, the weight of my pack pulling me down' this was how my journey began. My book " A Walk in the Woods" tells about my journey along the Appalachian Trail. It was written by me ( of course) Bill Bryson. It is filled with humor and is very informative. One good thing about this book (as I said before) is it is funny. Katz who was my partner at the begining of the trail added a lot of the humor. He was ( between huffs and puffs) making wise crack remarks about anything. He was fun to have around. Another good quaility about this book is that it gives you insight into a new world. The woods are a scary place but with this book you don't have to experience them to know this. You also get to know a place that you might never get a chance to visit. This will help you see the world better. With all things there is a "negative". In this case the "negative" is that the book has too many facts. For example did you know when the early Europeans came to the new world there were 950 million acres of woodlands. You really didn't need to know that to read the book Over all this was a great book. The humor made it enjoyable and the facts let you learn something everytime you turned the page.
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Summary: The Ultimate Wilderness Experience
Review: Everything one can want from a memoir can be found in A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. It was a fabulous book with a wide assortment of good qualities. I couldn't stop myself from constantly laughing aloud, however, it still found time to be packed full of interesting information. Bryson's insightful account of his attempt to walk the entire Appalachian Trail opened up a new world to me. The book didn't start too abruptly, however, it didn't drag on too much either. Its beginning was strong and I found myself asking many questions. The search for answers made me want to keep reading. In the first paragraph, Bryson talked about a mysterious trail that was in his backyard: "...I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town..." This immediately caused me to press on to find out more about the trail and where it led. One of the things Bryson does best in his writing is describe things. The many adjectives he uses describe the subject vividly. His wording paints a clear picture of what he is trying to say. In one part of the book, when he and his hiking partner first lay eyes on the Smoky Mountains, Bryson describes it as, "...a sudden new world of big, muscular, comparatively craggy mountains, steeped in haze and nudged at the distant margins by moody-looking clouds..." Bryson also added excitement and thrill to this book. Even though there were some boring pauses for information, he made up for it with several suspenseful moments. Once, while sleeping peacefully in their tents in the woods, the two adventurers were awakened by an unexpected guest in the middle of the night. "...there is definitely something out here.' 'It's probably just a skunk.' 'Then it's one big skunk. Its eyes are three feet off the ground.'...this thing just blinked once and kept staring." Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods is a great book explaining life through a wilderness experience. It had a wide variety of criteria required for a good book. Whether it's the vivid details, mystery, humor, or all of it combined, A Walk in the Woods is a fantastic book for anyone who enjoys the outdoors.
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