Into the Wild

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Summary: Get to the Point
Review: I though the content of this book was very thorough. It included all of the information the reader would want to know. This book included stories about Chris's journey across the country, people he came into contact with and his opinion on everything. Into the Wild told about his good times, bad times and what eventually lead to his death. I did not like the style of this story at all. Krakauer went back and forth from the time Chris died, to all his traveling adventures. This made the book very confusing to read. Also the long parts about others' adventures into the wild were totally irrelevant in my opinion. I did like the journal entries and chunks of stories at the begining of the chapters. They gave insights and almost foreshadowed what was yet to come. EN

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Summary: A book that all parents should read
Review: Having raised three boys and experienced much in the process, I found this book a good read and a lesson to be learned about truth and fairness when it comes to raising childern. Leaving his parents upon graduation, Chris was intent on returning one day and perhaps resuming a relationship with his parents, but after finding out about the former marriage of his father and the on-going affair his father had with his former wife, Chris turned against all that his parents had represented. Right or wrong, Christopher McCandless's story is a tough one to deal with; however, "Into the Wild" is a hard book to put down as the auther has journalized the life of Christopher into a comfortable experience. There are moments of excitment, but than there are haunting moments as well. Chris was truly a strong individual, perhaps alittle naive, but full of inner strength and determination. Only had he been able to walk out and re-unite with his past, perhaps than we would have come to know the real Christopher McCandless.

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Summary: this book was unorganized.
Review: I liked the book becuase it was like a Quintin Tarantino move. I liked how when they talked about one of the peopel who picked up or meet Chris they tould us how the knew Chris and how they felt towards him. With each chareter they tell us were they mett and what they knew about Chris. I also like that they gave examples of other people like chris in the story.

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Summary: Into The Wild
Review: Christopher McCandless's last journal entry before dying of starvation in the Alaska bush was simply the words "Beautiful Blueberries". Over the past two years he bought a secondhand canoe on impulse and paddled to Mexico, lived on the streets of Los Angeles with bums, camped in the Arizona dessert with hippies, tramped through almost every western state occasionally holding odd jobs, and lived completely off the land in the Alaskan backcountry. McCandless's journey separated him from his parents and peers, a world of security and material excess, and a world "in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence". A lot of people believe that McCandless was an idiot. He was "simply one more dreamy half-caulked greenhorn who went into the country expecting to find answers to all his problems and instead found only mosquitoes and a lonely death". I thought this book was well writen. It gets a little comfusing but in the end the whole thing makes sense. I liked this book.

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Summary: This book is not a page turner
Review: This book Into the Wild was about a man who went into the Wild to died. At a point you would think he was nuts but in some sense he was doing something his class wouldn't have done died in the wild. It talk about a young man character and the way he wanted to die. I read it over the summer for school, when I first look at the cover I thought it would be intersting but in the end it wasn't a page turned it was very boring,despresing and dumb. I would not recommonded it for it for people who are younger or people who cry easily you will not like it. Don't read it in a weekend you will have a boring weekend. People may like this if they don't know no better but I really hated it but it did have meaning in it.If you like the wild don't read it you will it very bord. I think it is not the best book in the world.

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Summary: Reader from West Des Moines
Review: I would give this book four and a half stars if I could. Krakauer let me take an adventure through Chris McCandless's point of view. Krakauer uses Chris's journel entries and many interviews of family and friends very well. It makes you feel like you are reading a personal diary with a tragic ending.

Chris's life is disturbing to some people, but the author did a nice job of relating his thoughts to me personally. I kind of write journels like Chris and I felt I knew how he was feeling and his reasoning for doing what he did. The reason this book just missed five stars in my book was because of the long on going stories that Krakauer tried to relate to Chris and his situation. Some of them worked and others were very boring. He made up for thought by getting back to how Chris was seeing the world, and how people that met Chris were seeing his world. I kept asking myself why people like this charismatic young man so much. I think it was because he had the guts to do what he wanted to make himself happy and these people admired him for it.

Krakauer really got the point across that this true story has happened many times before and can happen again. That kids do think like this, and communication is important in everyones life. I learned a lot from this book. I think that this story connects with people who like adventure. It makes you feel thinned-skinned and lonely. As you really would if you were faced in that situation. It takes you on a voyage of the mind and the heart without you leaving your room.

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Summary: This book was tragic but also very moving
Review: Into The Wild was a moving, tragic tale of a rich kid who cared alot about the little people and cared very much about the underprivleged and loved nature. However because of this he was esaily overly influnced by the books about the wild exceperatly if writen by Jack London, Tolstoy, or Thoreau. Bcause of this and finding out about his dad's affair with his mom will still married got him so annoyed at his parents that he cut off almost all contac with them until he granuated. After his granduation he just drove off without telling anyone. He wandered the U.S for about five years befor he decided to go to Alsaka with only five pounds of rice. He only took five pounds of rice because on a earler trip to Mexico he survived on only ten pounds of rice and the fish he court. The way he died of food poisaning all alone in the Alasakan wildernes with out ever having the chance to talk to his parents or his beloved little siste was to me a very sad death. I only gave this book four stars out of five because Karauer went on to talk about some other people that I felt just wasn't nasacery.

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Summary: Chris McChanless a man who made some interesting decisions
Review: I feel that the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer was a pretty good book. I think that McCandless was a man that really liked nature and know one really looks at him in this way. Most people say that he was stupid. I think that he was stupid in some ways as well because he should have been better equiped for his journy in the Alaskan mountains. As much as I like the nature myself I think that McCandless was kind of stupid for all of the things that he turned down like the 25,000 dollars that his dad gave him. All and all I feel that Jon Krakauer wrote a pretty good book that was a little suspenceful at times throughout the book. I find myself to be a young a Alex Supertramp, wanting to see the world and be a real person. I was great to read this book and finally see a real person -- a person that can and will be my remodel.

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Summary: Chris McCandless, a man looking for fun
Review: I think that this book was very good. Krakauer had a good interpretation of McCandlesses life. He did not feel it was right of McCandless to leave a college education, a car, and $25,000 worth of money. On the other hand he supported McCandless for doing such a hard thing that very few people could ever do in their life. Although he did get carried away every so often with unneeded details. Details that he got carried away with are things about plants, and places where he has lived/stayed. It is very hard for books to keep my attention, but this book did a good job of doing this. The reason this book could keep my attention was because it was about the wilderness and adventure, which are things that I like.

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Summary: I couldn't put this book down
Review: I think this book was really good, and I was totally into this book. I too love to hop to the extreme side of life when I feel like it, and I understood what chris was thinking. It is a rush to be a part of nature. I am now going to read Into Thin Air because I like Into the Wild so much. The only time when the book got sort of slow was when it talked about how everyone felt about what kind of person Chris was, wether he was reckless or responsible. I dont think its fair to judge people when you dont know them, But all in all, I did like this book. I do recomend it.