I generally enjoy his books but he certainly has a different makeup than I do. He is much more introspective than I am. For instance on one of his last books "River" he started of at the river sources and sat there for a couple of days to get the feel of the river. He also stopped a couple of times along the way to get the feel of the place. I either do not have an inner self or I am looking in the wrong place but I could not imagine doing something like that. If I were going to follow a river, the longest I could picture myself sitting there would be until the next morning so I could get an early start. I guess that it just points out that it is a good thing that we are all different.