Thanks for the first-hand feedback!
Not that I doubt a mans' motives .... but you can learn a lot reading 'junk' novels. Let me explain ...
In 1989, he published "Journey," a novel based upon the adventures of some of those who answered the Great Alaskan Gold Rush. One telling part of the tale were the various guidebooks, outfitters, and well-meaning folks who - and Michener documented these folks for real - who gave the travelers some very, very bad advice - largely because NONE of them had ever been anywhere near Alaska, nor had they travelled the route thay advised.
Now, that novel hit home with me ... for no other reason than that I had just finished a 'journey' of my own, one that 'everyone' knows so much that 'just isn't so.' I have since found that to be a common part of so much advice that is given, in so many discussions. Sure, I'm an expert on pesticides - because I played one in a TV show!
Now, anyone can have a bad day ... but a pattern begins to suggest that the problems do not lay with the complainers.
