Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. One Step at a Time. | 
panMaybe this was an expectations problem, but I wanted to read about the Amazon - wildlife, people, preservation. Stafford doesn't give much of that (too tired, doesn't speak the language). Instead it is a lengthy, often dull look at his day to day state of mind (often poor) and some weird motivational speaker crap.
Plus, I didn't like the guy. He seems overconfident, underprepared, wholly self-centred and not at all self-aware.
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CaramelLunacy I couldn't have done what he does, but it ultimately seemed pretty pointless other than to be in record books which I don't care about as motivation. 2y
CaramelLunacy He is very upset by casual jokes about murdering him and how useless he is because he is a white guy. He talks about the antiquated attitude toward women, gays and other races and how differently they thought than him. But the thing is...I don't believe that. The guy was an Army officer and in London finance around the financial crisis. I'm not buying that he didn't hear the same stuff at home in the name of "bants". He just wasn't the target. 2y
CaramelLunacy And then he talks about them eating (after about a month of low rations) as if they had "just been let out of a concentration camp". And dude. No. Just a big fat nope. Not at all the same. 2y
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