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A review by ngroeling
The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
4.0
SPOILERS. DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT AT ALL.
Read it in five hours, so a pretty smooth read. And captivating enough that you don't want to put it down. The first half the book is pretty good... Alan talks about his wife, who he met as a child because she was his neighbor, and how they pretty much grew up together going through the twists of childhood, puberty, and their teenage years before realizing they wanted to be with each other. So they eventually get married and live their lives frivolously, spending money like there's no worries about tomorrow. Then when one day his wife has an accident and eventually passes away. And now Alan is left without his wife and best friend. So he continues to lose everything, his job, his house, everything in that same time period, and decides to just "walk" away. So begins his Walk towards healing from the loss and finding answers to questions that he doesn't even know exist yet.
It's a good story. I found the second half, when his walk begins, to become a little redundant as it is always mentioning what Alan chooses to eat on his journey. Although I understand it, because if I was just walking across across the country too, the food and conditions of where I stay would be the highlights of my time. Amongst the occasional person I'd meet, what I'd learn, and what I'd discover from all my time to think.
This book is supposedly the first of a series. Their is currently a #2 out and a #3 coming out in May 2012, which are to continue to cover his Walk across the United States (as he only made it halfway across the state in this one), and who he meets, and so on. Which I am certainly interested in reading too.
Read it in five hours, so a pretty smooth read. And captivating enough that you don't want to put it down. The first half the book is pretty good... Alan talks about his wife, who he met as a child because she was his neighbor, and how they pretty much grew up together going through the twists of childhood, puberty, and their teenage years before realizing they wanted to be with each other. So they eventually get married and live their lives frivolously, spending money like there's no worries about tomorrow. Then when one day his wife has an accident and eventually passes away. And now Alan is left without his wife and best friend. So he continues to lose everything, his job, his house, everything in that same time period, and decides to just "walk" away. So begins his Walk towards healing from the loss and finding answers to questions that he doesn't even know exist yet.
It's a good story. I found the second half, when his walk begins, to become a little redundant as it is always mentioning what Alan chooses to eat on his journey. Although I understand it, because if I was just walking across across the country too, the food and conditions of where I stay would be the highlights of my time. Amongst the occasional person I'd meet, what I'd learn, and what I'd discover from all my time to think.
This book is supposedly the first of a series. Their is currently a #2 out and a #3 coming out in May 2012, which are to continue to cover his Walk across the United States (as he only made it halfway across the state in this one), and who he meets, and so on. Which I am certainly interested in reading too.