Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I got this book and the Audible not long after it came out, and just had to stop with it a fairly good way into it. I am an army veteran, so perhaps that explains why I didn't get that give star glow like so many others; this book defies physics by both sucking and blowing at the same time. The only parts of the book that rang true were just the lines the author lifted from Hemmingway. And, please, you recognize someone you met ONCE briefly (with them concealing their face) and you can recognize them from a distance during a blizzard years later? And everybody knew everybody else from the war; at least throw in a couple of degrees of separation! I thought the whole hobo expert thing was just unrealistic also. When did she ride the rails to gain her vast knowledge? Or did she have a hobo lexicon no body else haves? With minimal research, the author could have discovered that the rank of corporal is exactly one rank above private first class, and not an officer the way the author seems to think. It's one of the lower ranks in the army and marine corps. I just can not understand all these five star reviews; I mean five stars should be for GREAT books, like To Kill a Mockingbird and the like. Just because you read a book to it's end (some how) doesn't make it a five star book. I've just given up on Amazon's rating system; I'm not even sure why I'm writing this, other than hopefully saving a few readers from being duped into buying this. Run!