Bill Bryson Rumor

“Phil (from GA) who I hiked with a month ago told me that the guy in Bill Bryson's 'walk in the woods' was fictional..

Really? Have y'all heard that?”

“don't trip on that dead horse. someone might think you're beating it!”

“What? That guy was a horse?”

“of course!
of course!”

“Yes, Katz (?) was a fake. Strangly that was best part of the book. As soon as he was gone the book sucked.”

“And that Bryan Billson fella -
what's up with him?”

“Dang.. I luved the book.. but it sucks that it was fictional.. damn.. he reeled me in.”

“Steve Katz is his travel partner in his book about Europe as well. A must read, especially the chapter on Paris.”

“So the guy is fake though? Did Bryson really do those travels? But he made up his friend? Im confused.”

“I believe he travelled with someone but "Steve Katz" is a pseudoname.”

“If I recall correctly, I think Bryson hiked at least some small portion of the trail...... and, to quote David Letterman, perhaps "embellished" from there.......”

“Funny that the author of one of the best selling (?) "AT" books never completed the trail. He snookered me as well.”

“I knew he never finished the AT, but I have to admit the visual I got of his "friend" throwing all his gear off the side of that mountain was hysterical.

I think the only thing he saved in the way of food was the Twinkies, because they were so light weight! LOL”

“Its like his recent Australia book. He visited a few times. Hit the high spots, and wrote the bok.

He spent a summer doing a few section hikes, put together some humourous antecdotes . . . and viola'.”

“I loved the Beulah stuff in Waynesboro. Last time I was in town, I found the Kmart and laundry mat he wrote about. Kind of cool. And, man, did they have the greatest Chinese buffet there - great after hiking a bunch.”