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Summary: There Are Actually Many People Like This Guy
Review: "Into the Wild" is an interesting story of a young guy who essentially abandoned society and subsisted on nature, but nature got the best of him. Every family has individuals like this -- my own is larded with similar fruitcakes -- but they usually just stay in place, avoid gainful employment and cause messes for the folks around them. At least this "Into the Wild" fellow had the courtesy to leave home and not detrimentally involve anyone else in his own personal erosion.
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Summary: Unforgiving Nature
Review: Into the Wild has left me looking at my own life and thinking about what is really important to me. Chris McCandless, the main character, shows people what life without material possessions gives to society and also what these possessions take away.Chris' story had much more effect on me knowing it was true. For myself, coming from a strong family life, much like Chris', i find his changed outlook on life, and his adventure across america with no money and no plans, very hard to understand. Living in a broken down bus in the middle of the Alaskan woods does not seem like an improved lifestyle, but to Chris, it was. Jon krakauer does a very good job describing Chris' expedition and the harsh reality of wilderness and it's unforgiving nature. I found this book very moving and confirmed my own feelings as to what life should really be about.
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Summary: Unforgiving Nature
Review: Into The Wild has left me looking at my own life and thinking about what is really important to me. Chris McCandless, the main character, shows people what life without material possessions give to society and also what they take away. Chris' story had much more effect on myself knowing it was true. For myself, coming from a strong family life, much like Chris, I find his changed outlook on life very hard to understand, especially knowing that he died for what he believed in. Jon Krakauer does a very good job describing Chris' expedition and the harsh reality of wilderness and its unforgiving nature. I found this book very moving and confirmed my own feelings as to what life should really be about.
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Summary: I couldn't put this book down
Review: I loved this book! It kept me rapt from page one until the bitter end (I read it in one sitting). It explores one man's desire to lead a Thoreau-esque life (as many of us have desired from time to time), and the consequences which ensued. Moving and brilliantly written, which has become par for the course for Mr. Krakauer. A must read!
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Summary: Great story - author strays
Review: I had heard so much about this book that I had to read it. I also heard Singer/Songwriter Ellis Paul perform a song he wrote about the book. Also, I have a CD by "Eddie from Ohio" that mentions McCandless.The facts of the story are fascinating and it stirs noble themes while entertaining you as well. McCandless definitely had a "book worthy" life. The author however strays off into unrelated things often. He embellishes for two whole chapters about himself - interesting but not related enough. I often got the impression that he was trying to make the book longer than it needed to be. Nevertheless, the book is great.
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Summary: Twisting
Review: I felt that Krakauer's "Into the Wild" left the reader twisted. Both longing to experience the freedom that McCandless, the focus of the book, felt. But it also leaves you with a longing for family connection, and the pain cause by the severience of those connections.
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Summary: A pearl
Review: Interesting to read what other people got out this book.t I think the only two people who undersood Chris McCandless were the name changed stepfather candidate and author himself.
Having come from 100 km below the Arctic in Finland and then working 3 years in London (recession) made me quite a Chris McCandless.
The line between a madman and a celebrity is ever so thin...
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Summary: read the book, there won't be a movie
Review: When I first read a review of this book I wondered how anyone could put together a story about the death of a young drifter who died alone in the wilderness. Then I saw a copy of the book and I noticed its' mere 203 pages. Then I finally got around to buying and reading the book and I found how the author interjected a number of pages about his own similar experiences as a youth. Then I found that publicity from a magazine article he had written on the subject had prompted others to contact the author afterwards to tell and ask more about the deceased wanderer. Nonetheless, this is a good book, well put together and hard to put down. We are brought into the story at the time of the subject's death. We find ourselves wandering from place to place as we recreate, to the best of the author's ability, the life of Chris McCandles. In putting the story together in this way, the author, Jon Krakauer, not only makes the best of his limited information, he gives us an idea of the impetuousness of the mind of Mr. McCandles. This is a good book. Although I had heard of this book before "Into Thin Air", I didn't get around to reading it until after I read the other. Thus I was expecting a lot from the author and he rarely disappointed me. I think that most people who read this book will recognize something or someone from their own youthful days.
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Summary: A Moving Story
Review: When I first bought this book, I bought it not because I wanted to but because I had to read it for my English Composition class. The cover of the book already intrigued me and I could not wait to get started on reading the book. After reading the book, I feel like I've gotten to know the main character, Chris McCandless so well. This book is a must read for all the adventure seekers out there for it shows the extreme side of the word "adventure." Chris' story forces the reader to question himself in so many countless ways that it boggles the mind.
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Summary: Live life as an Adventure, Go to Alaska. Carpe Diem
Review: A Great Adventure Story. Carpe Diem. I discovered "Into the Wild" while writing "Discovering Denali", a reference book to Denali National Park in Alaska. I once took six months from life and toured the country by motorcycle and could relate very well to Chris McCandless. But, if you ever wondered what it's really like to live in the wild, read this book. He led an amazing life while wandering from place to place. To hear from those who were touched by Chris' extraordinary qualities was also very moving. The story had a sad ending, but few people have experience life like Chris did.
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