Play Book Tag discussion

Lots of people really liked this book. I wasn't one of them. I love to hike and thought a book about a woman hiking alone on the Pacific Crest Trail would be interesting and educational. Instead I found a story about a promiscuous drug user and the relationship with her mother. I would have preferred more about the PCT and less about her sexual peccadillos. Not to mention a horse named Lady. My advice is to skip that part.

She was so ill prepared for her hike she never even took a small hike to break in her brand new hiking boots. I thought the author came off as immature, entitled and self absorbed. The book is full of constant whining and self-pity. Again, lots of people really liked it so you may be one of them.

There has recently been a woman at the gym on the treadmill every day with her hiking boots on and a big backpack. I'm constantly reminded of this book, and how better prepared she is than the Cheryl Strayed was.

I wasn't crazy about it either, for most of the same reasons. The sheer stupidity of starting a hike like that so ill prepared was mind boggling!

This book was so polarizing. I swear my friends are literally split down the middle. I was a fan. Mostly because I found it entertaining that she was so immature and pretty much was willing to lay out all of her foibles. I felt she was very real. Not the brightest, but I definitely knew people like her in my twenties . . .

But I do understand she was pretty whiny.