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Summary: into the wild
Review: I didn't find this book particularly interesting. It was hard to follow at times, because it skipped back and forth between stories. It's about a man, Chris McCandless, who left home after college to make a new life for himself. He gave up his $25,000 in his savings to charity and dumped most of his possessions. He travels throughout the country meeting new people, hoping to get to Alaska. Finally, he gets to Alaska, but dies soon after. I would recommend that you don't read this book.
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Summary: Into the hearts of the readers!
Review: The book by Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild is a great book. I enjoyed it very much. If you enjoy true stories about people who love the outdoors and adventure, this book is perfect. The main character is Chris McCandless who wanted to try to live off the land. He burned his money and his idenfication and changed his name to Alexander Supertramp. Then he hitchhiked into the unknown, but something went horribly wrong. You will follow Alex all over the U.S. and finally end up in Alaska's deep interior. This is a touching and exciting book.
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Summary: Into the wild
Review: This is the story of Chris McCandels and his amazing journy throughout the United States and finally through Canada to the cold state of Alaska. Chris McCandels Is just out of colledge and is fed up with his parents and living a normal life. He decides to go out into the wild and make a new life for himself. He ends up diying a tragic death in the end but not before affecting many peoples lives for the good. Jon Krakauer does a very good job with writing this tragic story of Chris McCandels and I recomend reading this well writen story of Chris McCandels.
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Summary: A New Perspective
Review: Over the summer after the 7th grade, I started to read a book called Into the Wild. But I was never really the kind of person that could actually sit down and really read; I always had to be doing something active, so I never finished reading it. Then this past summer I found the book and decided that since I had nothing better to do, I would give it another try. I can't remember every little detail, but I do remember that it was really the only book I have ever read that actually made me think. It's a true story about a guy who was smart, and was heading towards a successful future. But to him, something was missing. He didn't have a great relationship with his father; he didn't have a girlfriend, or even many friends. So he decided he would go "into the wild", maybe to find something he was looking for. His journey took him into a forest in Alaska, and after several days he died there. Later his journal and camera were found, that included a picture of an old abandon buss he had been living in. This book had a profound effect on me, because I really started to understand that you can have everything and still be unhappy, or you can be fortunate and still want more out of life. Even though his decision to leave his life and the people that loved him may have seemed selfish, I found myself respecting what he was trying to do. Of course that doesn't mean I would make the same decisions, but it definitely gave me a new perspective.
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Summary: Krakauer tells a good story!
Review: I found this book on The Ishmael Community under Daniel Quinn's recommended reading list. Quinn put this book on there to let his readers know that going off into the bush by yourself ill-prepared isn't a good idea. This book opened my eyes to what it would really be like to "walk away" from civilization by myself, and live off the land hunting/gathering by myself.It also gave me some insight into what Christopher McCandless was thinking, and searching for. As you read Into the Wild you will find that McCandless wasn't your ordinary man in his early twenties. Like a lot of people who live in this civilization/taker culture McCandless realized there was a lot of things wrong with this way of life and wanted something different. Krakauer lays out the reasons why McCandless wanted something different very well for the reader. He also sheds some light on the similarities between himself and McCandless, and why he wanted something different at McCandless's age. After reading Into the Wild I don't think anybody could have told the story any better than Jon Krakauer.
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Summary: if you like outdoors................
Review: Into the wild is kind of a slow book. It's starts off and tells how the main character dies in the first ten pages. The book is kind of back and fourth. It takes you through all different parts of the story at anytime and it can be very confusing at some points. The story is also very interesting at some points. The story can be very surprising because the main character always does the opposite of what a normal person would do. He is always getting into many different predicaments. If you like slow jump around kind of books then you love this story by Jon Krakauer.
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Summary: one long walk for man kind.
Review: Into the wild by Jon Krakaure is an adventurous. Chris Mcandless is a man who gave up everything; I mean everything just to get away from all the problems of life around him. His whole journey is just him and the people he meets on the way to Alaska. All he has for survival is a .22 caliber rifle, rice, and a backpack with simple gear in it to survive with. His whole journey is to make it to Alaska and live off the land it has to offer. But when Mother Nature hits him hard the cold climate takes his life in a bus out on the stampede trail. And all the amazing people he met on his two year journey to Alaska will remember Chris and what a good-hearted person he was.
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Summary: Real Page Turner!!!
Review: In Jon Krakauer's book Into The Wild it takes you into the mind of Chris McCandless. Chris ditches almost all of his possessions then he hits the road traveling around the west coast. But still with his goal in mind to live off the land the land of Alaska.
This book besides the story of Chris McCandless gives the reader other peoples thoughts of Chris, people who met Chris and opinions of what he did. Krakauer also puts in passages from many authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Paul Shepard, and Jack London just to name a few.
This is a sensational book written about a tragic event that took place out in the terrifying wilderness of the Alaskan bush.
This is a must read if your into the outdoor adventures that have twist and turns every time you turn the page.
It's a real page-turner.
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Summary: Man 0; Nature 1
Review: Krakauer, who has become quite well-known for his man-against-nature reporting has written a fascinating report of Alex/Chris McCandless's hubristic attempt to out-Thoreau Thoreau. Apparently a very likeable and intelligent young man, McCandless not only revered Thoreau's back-to-nature writings - and civil disobedience, but more about that later - he also admired and had read Jack London, John Muir and Tolstoy. Unfortunately for him, he made a series of very simple mistakes, overestimating himself and underestimating nature. He ignored advice from many more experienced and concerned people who could see that he was going to get himself in over his head. (Even Thoreau could stand Walden Pond for only 18 months and he was within an easy stroll of town.)
Born Chris McCandless, he changed his name to Alexander Supertramp when he began wandering around the country, usually with no money - especially after he abandoned his car when it was caught in a flash flood and he ran the battery down before the engine had dried out. Rangers later found the car and used it for many years in drug stings - it ran beautifully. He, in true Thoreauian fashion as interpreted by Chris from Thoreau's book On Civil Disobedience, didn't think it was necessary to get his car registered or to renew his license, so when the car's battery ran down, he couldn't very well ask for official assistance given all the registration issues that would present themselves. It was then that he took completely to foot, and he burned (literally) the $120 he had left. During the trek through the Southwest, he was helped by many people, who picked him up as he hitchhiked. On his way through South Dakota he was befriended by a rancher who took him in rather than turn him back out to thumb a ride in the rain, and Chris worked for him off and on, periodically leaving to go on another trek. It was his decision to test himself in Alaska that was to prove his downfall.
He explained his rootlessness to a friend on one occasion as a disinclination for monotony, but his gift of a $40,000 trust fund bequest to OXFAM, suggested a more substantial rejection of society. Alaska was much less forgiving than the Southwest, with fewer roads, fewer people to bail him out, and wildlife unlike what he was used to. All he had to go on was a 10 lb. bag of rice, a .22 caliber rifle (not a large enough bore to hunt for food successfully), insubstantial boots, and thin clothes.
Ultimately, Chris lacked the skills to survive and at the end realized it. He left a note desperatly pleading for help on the abandoned bus in which his body was found just two weeks after his death. McCandless represents irrationality born of a uniquely American nostalgia for wilderness and the ever-receding frontier, combined with our incessant interest in high-risk activities.
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Summary: life or death?
Review: an intriguing account of someone in search of adventure, freedom and perhaps himself - who ultimately completely loses it all. I often wonder about those who set off for the furthest reaches of nature. Along the way surely they experience some amazing highs; but then when does thanatos override lust for life? What I enjoyed most about this book was the exploration of that territory in between 'zest for total life exploration' and then apparent drive toward the beyond, through death's curtains. an interesting story.
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