Review: Should have been a short story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2012
This is an odd one for me to review and rate.  For me it was more a 2.5 then a 3.  There is really little substance or story here, and I feel this could have been better served up as a short story.Instead you get what reads like a journal written by a man who spends time alone in the Alaska wilderness.  In that regard it's well written, the authors use of imagery was very good.  But this book is painfully slow and filled with minutia.  Over and over you read how to cook bacon, clean your gun, bait a hook...too much of this and little story.  I think this should have been kept to no more then 100 pages to be really effective, and the ending could still have been accomplished as it was written.It held my attention for the first 1/3 but I kept waiting for something to happen, and nothing really does until the very end. You can do a lot of skimming with this book and not miss a thing.