Inspiring, Courageous, Insightful, and just a Great Read | Dead Men Hike No Trails

The Fantastic Possibilities | Dead Men Hike No Trails | Rick McKinney

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	• Dead Men Hike No Trails Rick McKinney Booklocker.com, 2005 - 388 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Monumental

This book is an amazing first hand account of a life-changing, 2,000 mile American pilgrimage. Puts you on the Appalachian Trail with the author on a monumental journey of the foot and of the mind.

I haven't been so inspired to leave the comforts of home and see/experience/hike the world over since i read "on the road" 15 year ago. Finally, a modern day Kerouac.

Inspiring, Courageous, Insightful, and just a Great Read

I was given this book by a friend as a birthday gift this past July since she knew I was a big hiker. When I first started to read the book, it brought back a lot of hard memories about my life and I actually stopped reading it for a while. When I went on vacation, I took the book with me and completed it. Once I got into it, I couldn't put it down until it was finished. It was inspiring to see how one person took so much pain in his life and achieved a very difficult task and in the end became a more complete person. The book gave you a true sense of what it is like to hike the AT trail and the challenges it imposes. It gave you an understanding of the hike's day-to-day adventures / activities, the places that Rick considered eventful, and the distance aspect of the journey. The specific details about himself, his family, old friends, new friends, and relationships were exceptionally written.

I would recommend this book to anyone especially those people that enjoy the outdoors and hiking. At the end, you may find yourself buying AT books and figuring out how you can complete it.

Great job Rick!!!!

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The Fantastic Possibilities

I am finally writing a review for a book that I've read at least 3 times since I've gotten it this past winter.

I love books, I love literature, I love prose that makes your stomache ache and your throat close. This book is a fantastically written piece of literature.

McKinney is both a wonderful writer and traveler. This book works on a few levels--as a long, rambling poem, as a travel book, as a biography...this book means so many things to me I could probably go on and on.

This book is delibrately written in a first-person, present, you-are-with-the-author-right-there-in-his head type of way. I think that's why this work is so affecting. From the sad start of the book when he chooses to leave for the AT, being alienated from society and full of greif, surviving a green-sky lightening storm, to following the wrong woman just because he is COMPELLED, getting lost in the White Mountains in the middle of the night, climbing into the clouds and out the darkness, you are with the author so completely that you forget where YOU are. McKinney writes with an intensity that makes you feel every change of mood, every turn in the forest, everything.

Some books you read, you can almost feel the author struggling to pull the words out of his head, when they are then analyzed, rewritten, anguished over, etc. This words in this book simply flow on and on, as if this story (rocky as it is) came tumbling out of the writer.

This is a book that, I think, most people will identify with. Who isn't at times, both happy & wistful & elated & proud & frustruated & alienated & sweet & upset & powerful all at the same time? Or over time? Luckily McKinney has an articulate, plaintive voice that takes the reader up and through all of these.

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Deja Vu

This book is like a trip down memory lane. In fact, it is. As having survived the same season on the AT as McKinney, this book brings back the memories. It's an accurate depiction of the true trail experience, unlike other books that fall short (1800 miles short!) Buy this book for yourself, or give it away as an Arbor Day gift. Either way, get this book.

A Gonzo-Journalistic, 2000 Mile + "Road Trip"...On Foot !

A thoroughly enjoyable read. McKinney's words are poetic, cynical at times, but they're delivered with warm heartfelt sincerity. "Dead Men Hike No Trails" is well paced, engaging, inspiring, emotionally affecting, and full of humor. With no exaggeration, I was laughing out loud sometime during almost every chapter. McKinney makes it clear that this is only his interpretation of events on a grueling, and joy-filled hike from Georgia to Maine. However, whether you enjoy real life road trips, or epic fantasy journeys, you will love this book.

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