The Walk has picked up a bunch of great reviews in the blogosphere over the last few weeks...here's just a sampling.
Author
James Reasoner wrote, in part:
The Walk is part adventure novel, part horror novel, part comedy. A lot of terrible, tragic things happen, but Goldberg’s dry, satiric wit crops up often enough to keep things from getting overwhelmingly gloomy. Marty and Buck are fine characters who play off each other wonderfully well, and the pacing really keeps the reader turning the pages. All of it leads up to an absolutely great ending that really put a grin on my face.
The media critic known as
Unfanboy writes on his blog, in part:
Surely part of the reason for the book’s initial failure and late-blooming success is that it is nearly impossible to classify. The plot seems simple enough: it is the story of a man’s attempt to get home and find his wife after the long-anticipated “Big One” earthquake more or less levels Los Angeles. As the book’s peripatetic title might suggest, it is more of a philosophical meditation than a thriller – except that makes the book sound much less funny than it actually is. It might be more appropriate to describe The Walk as a kind of anti-apocalypse novel, or perhaps a satire on every disaster movie you’ve ever seen – but like the best satires, it offers some redemption in the end.
It's so gratifying to see the book still getting attention well over a year since it was first published on the Kindle.
Lee