GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK
A belated, but no less welcome, review of The Lost Art of Walking has just appeared on the walkingworld.com website.
It’s a good, positive review not least because it compares me favourably with Robert MacFarlane (that’s him above). He’s described as “a tad over-wrought” – whereas I am “down to earth and certainly funnier.”
Where the review goes off the rails: “The book (mine) is kicked off by his (i.e. me) going out for a walk, not in some far-off wilderness but in the ordinary streets around Hollywood, where he falls and ignominiously breaks his leg.”
Fall - yes, ignominious – certainly, but guys – it was my arm not my leg. Bit of a difference, and it is on the third page of the book.
Still, the review, and indeed the website, is to be found here:
http://beta2.walkingworld.com/Articles/Newsletter/Newsletter-archive/June-2012.aspx
It’s a good, positive review not least because it compares me favourably with Robert MacFarlane (that’s him above). He’s described as “a tad over-wrought” – whereas I am “down to earth and certainly funnier.”
Where the review goes off the rails: “The book (mine) is kicked off by his (i.e. me) going out for a walk, not in some far-off wilderness but in the ordinary streets around Hollywood, where he falls and ignominiously breaks his leg.”
Fall - yes, ignominious – certainly, but guys – it was my arm not my leg. Bit of a difference, and it is on the third page of the book.
Still, the review, and indeed the website, is to be found here:
http://beta2.walkingworld.com/Articles/Newsletter/Newsletter-archive/June-2012.aspx
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