pines’s Reviews > Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland > Status Update

this book is nominally about the keystone XL pipeline. every time we get to a place where ken could TALK about the keystone it gets passed over in a handful of words. the meeting he was so desperate to get to took up less than two pages. his travels with Rick, a real environmental activist, were less about his wisdom on the environment and more about Ken liking folksy aphorisms.

why does Ken Ilgunas think that living in a small town makes you less horny? hey ken why do you think that?

I talk down on Ken a lot, mostly because I think he's a self righteous dipshit who lacks the moral backbone to stand by any single one of his values, but his musings on the right to roam and our national obsession with private property is interesting and depressing in equal measure. our country is so set on Ownership and Possession that the average person is denied access to so much land it's almost criminal.

I don't want to tell Ken how to do his job but I don't think a sub 300 page memoir about HIKING THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE needs TEN PAGES ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT PLAINS. makes it seem like you, Ken, don't actually have a lot of stuff to write about.

ken stop talking about how much cows scare you, you're EMBARRASSING ME

i read on my breaks at work and I'll often go to my coworker after my break to update them with what is happening in the book. for this book I have taken to walking over to her after my break and loudly announcing 'THE ADVENTURES OF THE WORLD'S MOST ANNOYING MAN CONTINUE'

not to be mean. but. ken ilgunas seems like the most insufferable human being on the face of the planet. woe be to anyone who has to sit next to him on a plane.