Did anyone read The Salt Path?

I got it from the library and sending it back after the first couple of chapters. No thanks.

Well what’s it about?

OMG. I remember having a similar reaction eons ago when reading Angela’s Ashes.

It was one huge depression-fest, but I finished it because the book itself wasn’t poorly written, just terribly depressing.

Frank McCourt is a verbose windbag.

I met him back in the day since he was a lover of a former roommate. Just as insufferable in person.

Why read it? Just watch the crappy film just made, starring Jason Isaacs and the leading lady of the London stage: Gillian Anderson.

[quote] Well what’s it about?

A British couple in their 50s who lose their farm after a bad investment and now homeless, decide to hike a trail and camp until they figure out what to do. I don't remember much about it but I didn't think it was that depressing since the book was very successful so you knew their situation had improved some. It was even a little inspiring that they didn't just shoot themselves which is what I would have done, especially since the husband had some incurable physical disorder and many people treated them poorly as dirty homeless people.

i recall reading "the salt point" and finding it depressing

[quote]I met him back in the day since he was a lover of a former roommate.

Please elaborate.

I found the idea of their beings victims because the judge disallowed evidence, refusing an appeal, had another side to the story. Author pointedly refused to explain further what this "evidence" would have changed. Moreover, they'd gone through lawyers already, perhaps refusing advice to settle along the way?

Disliked [Italic]Angela's Ashes[/italic] when I read it years ago.

Someone finally responded to this! Thanks!

This book appeared to basically be a real life torture porn similar to A Little Life- but not as over the top- but still just abject misery.

They establish so early what happened- which is just soul crushing- and then you know already how bad the future is..

(I know it will be about the lovely lessons and "internal journey" for these folks, but its just hitting me all wrong.

The first 20 pages alone were enough.

Never went back. Its sitting with a pile of books to be read on the floor..

I recall reading about Sylvia Plath and finding her depressing.

Trailer to the soon-to-be-released movie with Gillian Anderson:

cently rI recenlty read ""Detroit" by Charlie LeDuff, and while it is likely he exaggerates, it is so depressing and so accurate on a meta level that it got me entirely depressed.

It was all right. Like the other poster I didn't feel that bad for them since it seemed like they were careless, and not victims.

I read it because I read lots of British memoirs but never one by a homeless people. What they did was pretty impressive actually. In general Brits write pretty well about nature and landscape.

Never went back to this one. It for me was real life torture porn. Along the lines of A Little Life but not as bad.