Everything on the front and back covers actually appears in the book, most as fairly prevalent plot points, which gives you an idea just how surreal the story is. This book is so strange, so bizarre, that my best advice is to take a good look at the cover, because the tone and imagery matches the writing style of The Hike with uncanny precision. “You need a lesson in manners, is what you need.” “Why should I tell you anything else? You kicked that sand at me.” Bonus! Here are just a few of his many fantastically snippy lines: Oh, and there’s a sassy talking crab sidekick. The path itself is hellish enough, with giant crickets, forced cage fights and an unsettling variety of demonesque creatures, but none of it compares to what surfaces when he leaves the path. As far as survival strategies go, it’s unnervingly vague, but trial and error teach Ben that their advice is sound. He carefully notes landmarks so he can find his way back, but when he tries to retrace his steps nothing is the same. There’s a dead body, horrific men wearing dog faces and absolutely no sign of civilization.Įverything that follows is part of the path.īen eventually comes across a few seemingly normal people (even if one of them is straight out of his past) who tell him to stay on the path and find the producer. He didn’t set out to find it he only wanted to take a quick hike before a business meeting at a mountaintop hotel. That’s the message Ben gets when he finds himself on the path.
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