In addition to the humor, there is beauty in his descriptions of daily events as normal as a sunrise. It was an absolute laugh riot, those few pages that were about her. He finds humor in everything! But the best part is when he talks about Mary Ellen. Circumstances bring change, perhaps? 😉Įither way, Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods is a funny take on trudging miles through relative wilderness with Katz on his trail (unintended).
Because the moment she goes out of the picture, Katz goes back to being an ass. Maybe it is because of a highly annoying woman called Mary Ellen. Then again, there comes a point in the book where I started feeling bad for Katz. Maybe his bumbling nature was all the encouragement that Bryson needed. I felt really bad for Bill Bryson because all he wanted was company and encouragement and he got Katz. It’s a whole another matter that he is an actual living person. It’s as if I’m there, watching him take the trail while being absolutely exasperated with Katz.īryson’s exasperation spills over to me and I immediately began to dislike him immensely. It makes me feel wonderful to be just reading it.
But this narrative of Bryson’s trudge through the Appalachian Trail still brings me joy, awe, and a whole gamut of emotions. Of course, one should do their own research before starting on a journey like this. 😛īill Bryson rattles off facts from time to time and there are so many of them that push me into a state of awe of this man. I might coax a couple of people into accompanying me but I really don’t want to spoil that experience for them because I’m a jumpy little creature sometimes. At the end of that little chapter, I muttered under my breath: I don’t want to walk in the woods as much now.Īt least Bryson had a companion in the form of his huffing and puffing and complaining companion, Stephen Katz.
Plus, reading this account of Bill Bryson’s research before he took the Appalachian Trail freaked me out a little.
But then again, I am really, really scared of animals and I’m really not sure how I’ll fare in there. And someday, I hope I will be able to go take a walk in the woods. I love traveling but I’m mostly limited due to circumstances. At one point I was asking myself how I could be so stupid as to not have read his books before. I found this book hilarious in the way he pokes fun at everything in the world, including himself. Books like these might be a tad tedious to read, but Bill Bryson knows how to mix facts with humor and make a book appealing. A Walk in the Woods is the author’s account of hiking the Appalachian Trail.
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