I recently listened to
Walking With Sam as an audiobook and would recommend it. I have long since become bored with most accounts of walking the
Camino Frances, but this one was different. The audiobook version had the advantage of the author and his son both reading their parts, which they did very effectively, so the dynamics were very obvious. I'm not sure if I would have enjoyed reading a print version as much.
His preparation for his second Camino is negligible. He and his son often begin walking at 11:00 am in mid-August, on 100+ degree days. His attitude toward hospitaleros is poor. And he mistakes hiking poles for "ski poles".
I don't see these as "flaws" in the book. The author was definitely not recommending anything about his approach, as a guide to others! The reason why they started so late was a key element in the story. I thought that the honest exposure of their own mistakes, prejudices, bad moods at times, etc., was a strength of the story and it was done with wry humour.
[As I've mentioned before, I have become a big fan of audiobooks and podcasts - something I never would have expected. Bone conduction headphones are the game changer for me, and I happily spend hours doing gardening or walking while listening. I also just finished the audiobook version of
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene. I enjoyed wandering in Spain with the characters, to places that I've been on Caminos, and I marveled at how brilliant a writer Greene was.]