Customer Reviews
What a fantastic read! - By: K. Brogan, 21 Apr 2008 
I'm not a big reader & had never before read a Bill Bryson book but was bought this for Christmas by my parents. I took it with me on holiday as essential beach reading & as soon as I started it, found it VERY hard to put down.
Bryson's writing style is easy to read & extremely entertaining whilest being factual & informative.
I have now started to read his 'Down Under' book & am quick becoming a big Bill Bryson fan!
Nice, enjoyable, fairly light - By: Jezza, 24 Mar 2008 
Not as many laughs out loud as some of his others, but an enjoyable read nonetheless.
MORE OF A MARATHON - ENJOY! - By: M. Drake, 28 Dec 2007 Bill Bryson takes us on a marathon trek on the highways & byways of the Appalacian Trail with his out of condition middle aged body & that of Katz his physicallly challlenged friend. Luckily for them & us, they didn`t have the slightest idea of what they were in for before they set out - meeting interesting characters on the way & having several out of the body experiences. Bill manages to keep our interest to the end in a thoroughly entertaining read which moves much faster than the aching bodies of the two protagonists!
Mick Drake author of the the comic novel All`s Well at Wellwithoute
How NOT to walk the Appalachian Trail - By: Linda Bulger, 20 Oct 2007 I've been a Bryson fan since a British friend gave me a copy of "The Lost Continent: Travels in Smalll-Town America" years ago -- what, I wonder, was his point??
"A Walk in the Woods" is more entertaining if you've read "Notes from a Smalll Island" (1997). In that book, Bryson takes a walking trip around Britain, his home of nearly 20 years, before returning to live in the States. When you walk around Britain, you can take the train on the hard bits & have a pub meal & bed every night if you like.
The irony, then, of Bryson comparing the Appalachian Trail to that experience!
"A Walk in the Woods" is a laughing-out-loud book but as usual with Bryson, his writing is well researched & the informative parts are presented in an offbeat & personal way -- without detracting from their clarity. His reconnection with American social & environmental history is well presented
This book is an object lesson on how NOT to undertake a project like the AT -- yet it almost makes you believe you could do it! Or at least that you owe it to yourself to try.
Who needs therapy when you can read this. - By: Ms. L. J. Oliver, 01 May 2007 This book is better than comfort food & much less fattening. If ever I feel a bit down, I pick this up & re-read it. It totallly takes me out of myself while I'm reading it. His humour is spot on & he gives a real sense of the challlenge they took on. I just love this book & if ever I had to pick one book only to read it would be this one, it's not an intellectual book, it's not a pretentious book that you feel you 'should' read, it's just a warm, well written bit of time out from life & I think it's fab!
