Otherwise, it’s basically the author trying to figure out new and weirder ways to torture Ben. He is the only “funny” part of the novel. Needless to say, he ends up meeting a talking crab who talks a lot of shit. There is very little rhyme or reason to what happens to him along that path, but maybe that’s the point. A path that leads him on all sorts of surreal adventures. He goes for a hike before dinner and finds himself on a path that he can’t leave. Instead it’s a tale about a regular family dude named Ben who travels from Maryland to a mountain retreat in Pennsylvania for a work thing. Which makes it sound like it’s Jack and the Beanstalk, which it isn’t. Nope, it’s like a straight-up fantasy novel with giants and magic beans and shit. I wasn’t full of hi-jinx or wacky characters and slick dialogue. But the novel was nothing like that at all. But, in retrospect, I think it’s mostly because I understood there was some humor in this novel and, like most of Haissan’s novels, has a water-living creature on the cover. Even though I’ve never actually read a Carl Haissan book. I thought it was going to be like a Carl Hiaasen book. I gotta say that I didn’t quite know what I was getting myself into with The Hike.
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