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Into the Wild
by: Jon Krakauer

Used Price: $7.77

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780330453677
Format: Import
ISBN: 033045367X
Label: Pan Books
Manufacturer: Pan Books
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 07, 2007
Publisher: Pan Books
Sales Rank: 1162208
Studio: Pan Books

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Poorly Equipped Dreamer
It's ok to be a dreamer. It's ok to want to 'find yourself.' It's really ok to hike and backpack. I've done it myself, but I would never, never enter a wilderness area without, at least, a topographical map. Chris McCandless' story is nothing short of tragic.
Jon Krakauer does a fine job of getting you into the mind of this doomed traveler while also taking you into the adventure and beauty of the wilderness.

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- Beauty, goodness and hope. . .
I'm saddened to see so many people writing with little or no compassion for Chris McCandless, and such a limited effort to understand his quest.

Most of us know what he was running from -- problems at home, a society struggling with issues of materialism and morality. But an understanding of what he was searching for -- inner peace, closeness with nature, a quiet and beautiful place in which to think -- eludes many of us, just as it eluded him.

It could be lovely, could it not? Wild strawberries spilling down the riverbank, red poppies flaming the hills, cobalt mountains loping along the sky, like waves in a gently rolling sea. I am blessed to live in such a place, where I can reflect and write in perfect solitude, and I appreciate the beautiful life I have. I live a little like he did, but without his extraordinary deprivation -- the berries, the bag of rice, no way (as he perceived it ... Read More

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- Crappy book about a wonderful human
Jon Krakauer, typewriter jockey, decided that in order to justify his wasted life to himself, that he would smear the image of such a beautiful human as the subject of this book, by writing a mocking, superficial account of something that he could never understand.

Instead of praising the kid's sense of adventure and compassion, he takes jabs at the kid for how "immature" and "thoughtless" he is ... well even though Krakauer's fat-a** is still sitting in cafes drinking lattes bought with the money earned from his books and films, the kid still OUTLIVED him. I doubt he's ever lived for a minute of his dull office-bound existence.

Save your money and read a real book about the wilderness ... maybe something by John Muir or Edward Abbey.

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- Dull
Why would I read a book that basically tells me the plot and resolution of the book on the cover? Way to keep readers engaged with the summary of the novel on the cover. I knew what happened without even opening the book, and when I was forced to read it, I found it quite dull and pointless.

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