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A Season on the Appalachian Trail: An Ameican Odyssey, 2nd

A Season on the Appalachian Trail: An Ameican Odyssey, 2nd

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Surprised by "Walk in the Wild"
Review: Best seller--Walk in the Wild" '98 has humor,but so very trite..how could it achieve such success,& this title be (so) overlooked... obscure?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Class of '96
Review: I felt the book was well written. I liked the month by month time frame and the way it followed certain people the whole trail. It was a good trade off with "A Walk In The Woods" by Bryson who did it the same year.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dismal, plodding and boring
Review: I have hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, though in sections, over 3 years, so I do know something about the experience. This book was a crashing bore and I trust most of you would agree with me. Setzer writes with an amateurish, torturous manner which befits a schoolboy and not a published author. He knows little, if anything, about the AT because he never hiked it himself. He interviewed people who did and writes of their experiences with a detatched air which ultimately infuriates and insults the reader. Consult Coplin's "Wild Bird Song" for a truly inspiring read. This is dismal droning.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Class of '96
Review: I really enjoyed this book. The best AT book I've read so far. You really get a feel for the Trail.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent
Review: I really enjoyed this book. The best AT book I've read so far. You really get a feel for the Trail.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A Jumble of Hiker Entries
Review: I was a little disappointed in the format of this book. Basically, the author strings together comments and observations pulled from interviews and trail registers throughout the 1996 hiking season. Some comments were certainly interesting and entertaining, but they didn't blend together very well. The epilogue, written a few years later based on interviews of some of the 1996 thru-hikers, was a little better.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A Jumble of Hiker Entries
Review: I was a little disappointed in the format of this book. Basically, the author strings together comments and observations pulled from interviews and trail registers throughout the 1996 hiking season. Some comments were certainly interesting and entertaining, but they didn't blend together very well. The epilogue, written a few years later based on interviews of some of the 1996 thru-hikers, was a little better.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Misleading title, disappointing content
Review: If you're looking for a book from someone who actually has thru hiked the AT, then avoid this at all costs. I was extremely disappointed in the narrative, which is essentially just a jumbled mish-mash of stories culled from AT trail journals. I couldn't believe a publisher would bring out a book with such an extremely misleading title. Lynn Setzer never walked the Appalachian Trail and the style of the book is disjointed, irritating and uninformative. A massive disappointment to anyone who has thru hiked the AT or someday dreams of doing so. I suppose there is some scant merit in the book, and I did actually complete it, but it was a chore.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Follow the yellow brick road
Review: Like many of the other comments, I also did not feel particularly drawn to liken to the author because he had not actually hiked the trail. This book was full of good stories that kept my attention, but would have been better coming from a 1st person point of view.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Follow the yellow brick road
Review: Like many of the other comments, I also did not feel particularly drawn to liken to the author because he had not actually hiked the trail. This book was full of good stories that kept my attention, but would have been better coming from a 1st person point of view.


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