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Adventures of a Trail Stooge Kindle Edition

by Chris Quinn (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
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Adventures of a Trail Stooge follows The Esteemed Stooge, Sir Charles Guilons on his thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Starting atop Springer Mountain in Georgia, Sir Stooge makes his way over more than 2,100 miles of earth to summit the beautifully lonesome Mount Katahdin in Maine. Along the way, he meets some great friends: from Tangy and Munchies in Georgia to the silent John in the Wilderness, and all the rest between. Through the beauty of the Earth, the laughs, celebrations, struggles, and pain, he learns some things about himself, and the thing we collectively call life.

Using journal entries as the basis of the text, Sir Stooge enhances the gritty, emotional entries with post-trail commentary. The coupling of raw entry with polished narrative creates a complete picture of life on the trail. Through his adventures, Sir Stooge grants the reader insight into life on the trail—physically, mentally, and spiritually.
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    175 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publication date
    July 15, 2015
  5. Reading age
    15 - 18 years
  6. Grade level
    9 - 12
  7. File size
    2704 KB
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About the Author

Chris Quinn grew up in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. After graduating from the University of Delaware, he lived and worked in Hoboken for a few years before hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2013. He is now a writer and a teacher in South Jersey. For more of his works and stories, check out www.quinnwriter.com.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B011SMMIIA
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 15, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2704 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 175 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1515279634
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 173 ratings

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Chris Quinn is a writer and teacher in South Jersey. After working in the corporate world in Hoboken, NJ for several years, he decided to take a different direction. He thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2013, which he recounts in his first book Adventures of a Trail Stooge.

Chris recently published his first children's book, "Silver Moonlit Words." It is the first book in a series about Johnson's Farm of Medford, NJ. Keep an eye out for the next installment of the "Corner on the Farm" series!

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3.8 out of 5 stars
3.8 out of 5
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jimbey
5.0 out of 5 stars Be kind to the animals and young whippersnappers, and read this book!
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2015
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I read just about every long-distance hiking book that becomes available - hikers are like that. When we're not out there ground pounding, we love to wallow in comfort and hit the trail from within the pages of a "I-hiked-xxx-trail-and-saw-this-and-did-that" book. I love them all, but they are usually pretty similar.
Chris broke all the rules of Appalachian Trail travelogues, and produced a never-boring, unique chronicle of his adventures. True, his narrative is based upon his rather sparse trail journals - but he presents the journal entries pretty much as written, and then annotates them with after the fact details and recollections. It actually works! Of course, you should already be familiar with the Appalachian Trail - and you should have read at least one of the more detailed step-by-step books first, or you may get lost as Chris motors up the trail.
One of the strong points of his account also produced from me a BITTER complaint! The strong point: we get to read the viewpoint of a painfully young scribe. The complaint? This young whippersnapper keeps referring to people far younger than me as "old guys"! Karma, Mr. Sir Stooge. Someday, your insensitivity to the more -er- experienced element will come back to bite you! :)
Outstanding job, Sir Stooge! Keep the ground on the down side. See ya up the trail!
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Lori D'Amico
4.0 out of 5 stars Engaging Read
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2018
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I have read perhaps a dozen online A.T. hikers blogs and have found that after a while, there were more than a few similarities. I would read of a hiker reaching a certain point and recognize the name and some of the more frequent "hiker hangouts." Nothing wrong with that but after a while, you hope for something at least a LITTLE different. This book was quite refreshing in that regard!
I liked reading about the author's mindset ...the things he was thinking about, his honesty when he felt "creeped out" by a certain hiker, his gut level fear when he encountered the man in the hammock during a night hike, even his mention of Lyme disease and a hiker he knew who picked up bedbugs. I liked reading about his thoughts on some of the more existential things in life.
I wish he had shared a little more about his life beforehand and what, if anything, became of his feelings for Leah. I also wonder what his life is like now?
This is a well written and engaging read!
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K. J. Gardner
3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings... not great, but not quite horrible.
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2015
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Chris definitely did some deep thinking during his hike, thoughts that were interesting and will resonate with many people.
That being said, however, there was a lack of cohesiveness and maturity in his use of his trail journal entries and following notes, added for publication. Also could've used a thesaraus, desperately.
If you have no familiarity with the AT, thru-hiking, or backpacking in general, you'll be lost and confused throughout his tale, if you even manage to finish reading it, as he gives no explanations, trail history, or expansions on daily details, nor on keeping track of the large number of people coming and going throughout.
And yet, I did finish it.
There was something engaging regardless of the inanities, the very limited descriptive vocabulary and the annoying use of the plus sign in place of the word "and" (or even the ampersand). It somehow has that intangible something that makes one want to know what happens next.
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Fred
2.0 out of 5 stars Can be missed
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2015
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Oh, the joy that self publishing brings us. This is not more than a bunch of incoherent notes and would have never reached a wider audience than family and friends back in the days before easy self publishing gave us the opportunity to bore the hell out of people and make them pay for it as well. No fun reading this book, nothing to be learned. So just give it a miss, you will be grateful for it.
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Jonathan Bahm
5.0 out of 5 stars My thru hike with the stooge
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015
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I found myself getting lost in the life of a stooge. Not only did I live the life of a thru hiker on the Apalachian trail, running from a GIANT moose, but I also found myself asking deep philosophical questions about the essence of my own existence. Sir Charles the stooge is a guy you can have a beer and laughs with while simulteanoualy contemplating life's riddles. This book is both thought provoking and fun. It's an easy read, for those who have a thirst for life on the trail. It's also a tool kit for those who are asking what the heck they want to do with their lives. I highly reccomend this book to any human being who wants to know about the Appalachian trail or just wants to understand life.
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Liz Phipps
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Read
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2015
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As you read along, his boundless optimism only partially masks just how hard hiking the Appalachian Trail really is. Many (most?) of his trail journals end with something along the lines of "... tired... gotta sleep." and he eventually starts to list the things he needs to not forget about when he gets another chance to write. His annotations are beautifully written, and contrast nicely with the raw spontaneity of his original journal entries. I also found it amusing that, to me at least, it was easier to keep his trail buddies straight compared to his 'real life' friends. Chris only gives glimpses of his introspection, but but there are hints that much of his journey was spent contemplating life and his place in it. Maybe he could have shared his insights more, or maybe that would have only bored or annoyed people. It's another entry in the list of trail hiking books, and manages to be just enough different to not be the same ol' thing.
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Jonathan Quigley
5.0 out of 5 stars Happy trails!
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2015
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A wonderful look at the Appalachian Trail as it happens with an insightful post-hike review of what the author experiences, dreams, and hopes for both the adventure and life after a thru-hike! An amazing tale with inspiration and a hope for the reader along the way!
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taffy campbell
2.0 out of 5 stars Easy read
Reviewed in Australia on October 8, 2019
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Nice easy to read story. I would not buy the book but ok on Kindle for free
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