[at-l] A Request for Information

[lharder at attbi.com (Leslie Harder)]

Yes.  I did buy it.  BUT, with a gift certificate so that doesn't really
count.  : < )
np on the mail.
Leslie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zach" <zach1235@yahoo.com>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] A Request for Information


> Did you buy the book?! You only serve to prove the
> point. If you write it, we (the rabid hikers) will
> read it, even if we know beforehand that it will
> probably suck. All the publisher cares about is money,
> who cares if it is a lousy book if it sells millions!
>
> BTW, sorry Leslie, didn't mean to email you directly.
>
> Zach
>
> --- Leslie Harder <lharder@attbi.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I read Bryson before he did the AT book and I didn't
> > like the way he
> > traveled, demeaning things and people instead of
> > giving any sense that he
> > was really being IN the place and WITH the people
> > and learning anything.  I
> > read his AT book, of course, and didn't see much
> > there to dissuade me from
> > my earlier opinions.
> >
> > Leslie
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <redhead@hack.net>
> >
> > > I'm pretty sure that a majority of AT hikers are
> > less discerning than your
> > > editor.  We read every account of the AT we can
> > find without regard to
> > > punctuation, grammer or whether you actually
> > completed a thru. Heck, we
> > even
> > > read soap labels. I am pretty sure that Bryson
> > only managed a high selling
> > book
> > > because he was published previously, and had a
> > reputation for humorous
> > writing.
> >CUT<
>
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