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Summary: Cahill's best; hysterically funny.
Review: As an avid travel adventure reader and a some time travel adventurer, I've read many of the travel adventure writers. PECKED is Cahill's best. His essay on caving is one of the funniest he's ever written. While another collection JAGUARS RIPPED MY FLESH was intermittently funny, PECKED TO DEATH's essays are full of his wry humor in locales that many of us will never have the opportunity to visit.
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Summary: Cahill's best; hysterically funny.
Review: As an avid travel adventure reader and a some time travel adventurer, I've read many of the travel adventure writers. PECKED is Cahill's best. His essay on caving is one of the funniest he's ever written. While another collection JAGUARS RIPPED MY FLESH was intermittently funny, PECKED TO DEATH's essays are full of his wry humor in locales that many of us will never have the opportunity to visit.
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Summary: Touching Funny
Review: Brilliant. CaHill's images and scenes move from touching and emotional to knee slapping goofy in the distance of just few words. CaHill, Like Bryson, Delves deep into the subject matter and brings forward rich gobbs of history and fact all deliciously wrapped in wicked storytelling.
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Summary: Hilarious, entertaining, maybe even educational
Review: Cahill does what we all dream of doing. He goes to exotic places, meets exotic people ... and gets to write about them. Pecked to Death has one essay in particular, Bear In Mind, that's both chilling and a hoot. A writer to be studied, enjoyed, and, I guess, emulated
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Summary: something for everyone
Review: Cahill may not be a world-class mountaineer or climber - he's simply someone out there doing things, having fun, and writing hilarious accounts of his adventures and antics! From caving and climbing to paddling and interesting encounters with bears - Cahill had me in stitches throughout most of the book! A "definitely must read" for anyone vaguely interested in the outdoors!
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Summary: brain candy
Review: Each story is interesting and some of them are quite funny...buy it used...wouldn't pay full price for it!
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Summary: Overrated Dribble
Review: I bought this book because of an Amazon.com recommendation which said if I enjoyed Bill Bryson's I would enjoy Cahill. Unfortunately Cahill has neither the sense of humour nor the keen sense of observation which makes Bryson one of the most entertaining authors of the moment. Cahill writes like a reporter for a backwater newspaper who has nothing to say, but has to fill some space. Boring.
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Summary: Don't Stop with Pecked to Death...
Review: I was first charmed by Tim Cahill's writing in "Jaguars Ripped my Flesh," and a "Wolverine is Eating My Leg." Reading Cahill introduced me to this whole genre of travel/"oops" writing and, although I have read others, I still enjoy Cahill the most. Check out "Outside" magazine (available online and in paper) for a periodic Cahill fix. In the meantime, if you haven't caught up on his earlier works, read them! And, think of the places we can go if we take care of our world.
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Summary: brain candy
Review: I was quite disappointed in this book. Cahill has written outstanding material but this collection seems to be a gathering of miscellaneous leftovers. I was led to this book after reading A Walk in the Woods by Bryson - and it was a false lead. The quality is not there.
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Summary: Pecked to death by ducks
Review: I was quite disappointed in this book. Cahill has written outstanding material but this collection seems to be a gathering of miscellaneous leftovers. I was led to this book after reading A Walk in the Woods by Bryson - and it was a false lead. The quality is not there.
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