Re: [at-l] Bill Bryson

[Slyinmd@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/28/99 10:55:02 AM US Eastern Standard Time, 
ssharpe@WELLESLEY.EDU writes:

<< I really enjoyed Bill Bryson's
 book.  It was sort
 of "The AT for idiots", and I thought it was really funny.  Sorry some of
 us took offense
 at his statement that after 800 miles he "Hiked the AT", >>

No flame here.  I also thought the book was funny and he did  "hike the AT",  
just not all of it.  Perhaps he didn't hike the 800 miles.

I am surprised that he quit in the middle of the 100 mile wilderness, at that 
point in the book it almost seemed contrived.

Sly
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