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    Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor
    Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor
    Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor
    Audiobook9 hours

    Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor

    Written by Josh Wolk

    Narrated by Johnny Heller

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Entertainment Weekly scribe Josh Wolk has also had his work appear in other major publications such as the New York Times. Faced with the ultimate step into adulthood, Wolk returns to the summer camp of his youth before walking down the aisle. His beloved campgrounds have remained remarkably the same, but Wolk finds that he has grown bafflingly out of touch- and is as intimidated as a shy camper in the face of supermacho co-counselor Mitch.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 16, 2008
    ISBN9781440799105
    Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor

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    • 4/5
      Author Josh Wolk attempts to recapture his memories of being a camper by becoming a camp counselor before he marries that year. Cabin Pressure is a hilarious attempt to finish his bachelor bucket list, as his fiancee takes care of the invitations, menu and ceremony.Reliving the past proves more difficult than Josh expected and with the appearance of Mitch, his old nemesis, insecurities return. Feeling ancient and older than some of their dads, Josh tries to prove himself in a cabin of smart-aleck 14 year olds.I recommend this book as a fun way to get back to reality. WE can't go back, can we??Is he ready to leave the past, along with the bug spray, wet towels to enter an unkniown stage in life? ?Read this laugh-out-oud book to follow Josh's hilaruious antics.
    • 3/5
      I picked this book up for two reasons:1. It was endorsed by A.J. Jacobs in a blurb on the back jacket and I find Jacobs hilarious2. It was sitting in a discount bin Now, I really should have offset the two prior points with two red flags.1. The book was published nearly seven years ago, yet I never heard of it.2. It was sitting in a discount bin - and it was a first print.Basically, the warning signs would have been good to heed - I really disliked the book for the first 50 pages or so. The author rubbed me the wrong way, there just seemed to be this unpleasantness around him...But maybe the return to camp worked its magic, because eventually, the tone changed and I enjoyed the book just a little - once it shifted focus from Wolk to the kids at the camp, even if the shifted focus didn't run very deep.Based on the first 50 pages, I'd have given the book 2 stars at best...but it did get a little better.
    • 4/5
      I always enjoyed reading Josh Wolk contributions to Entertainment Weekly so when he wrote a book - I added it to my wishlist. It took 5 years but I finally read it and enjoyed it. I was not a camp person and actually really disliked the few camp like experiences I had as a teenager but Wolk's enthusiasm for his camp years is pretty contagious. I found his chatty style of writing easy to read and thought it was a fun memoir. It's a nice light book - I think people who are camp people or people who are nostalic on any level will find it a engaging read.
    • 5/5
      Engaging. Josh Wolk going back to the camp that he attended as a child and was a counselor at as a young adult the summer before he gets married. Kind of a last hurrah. What he discovers is shocking. Kids are basically the same now as they were when he was a kid. He really captures a summer camp atmosphere and the personalities that inhabit that realm. I really enjoyed this book, and it made me miss my "summer" (mine lasted only a week) camping days...
    • 1/5
      I returned this to the library after putting up with the first 2.5 discs. Any attempt to craft a wry Jean Shepherd-esque look back on camp and incipient adulthood was shattered by that perfect mix of navel-gazing and overprivileged whining that just made me want to kick the author in the shins. Sorry, Charlie.