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oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 12:43 PM Feb 2013

Enjoyed "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Book details the story and family of Christopher Johnson McCandless who gave up everything to go on the road to be free and ended up in Alaska. Am sending it on to my free and slightly wild (but she does work seasonally) niece.

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Enjoyed "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer (Original Post) oldandhappy Feb 2013 OP
That's the guy who starved to death in Alaska, right? sinkingfeeling Feb 2013 #1
Yes, and they made it into a movie as well. nt Lex Feb 2013 #2
With an awesome soundtrack... Democracyinkind Feb 2013 #3
I bought the soundtrack Lex Feb 2013 #4
Yes! oldandhappy Feb 2013 #6
Excellent book. SheilaT Feb 2013 #5
Yeah. That was an interesting book. Neoma Feb 2013 #7
Have you read any of his other work? Adsos Letter Feb 2013 #8
Yeah, good book. Read all of Krakauer's stuff. You won't be sorry. n/t FSogol Feb 2013 #9

Democracyinkind

(4,015 posts)
3. With an awesome soundtrack...
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 04:14 PM
Feb 2013

Though I do like the book very much, too. Especially the old guy, that wanted to adopt him. Seriously touching on so many levels.

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
6. Yes!
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 08:43 PM
Feb 2013

He almost made. Died from eating seeds with mold. Sad. But he sure had an amazing couple of years.

Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
8. Have you read any of his other work?
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 11:40 PM
Feb 2013

I also enjoyed Into the Wild.

If you've not already done so, consider giving Into Thin Air and Under the Banner of Heaven a look.
Into Thin Air is an account of a disastrous 1991 expedition to Mt. Everest, in which Krakauer was a participant. There has been controversy over his retelling of events, and his behavior on the mountain during the storm, and the newer editions contain a fairly lengthy afterword in which he addresses most of the criticisms.

Under the Banner of Heaven details a double murder carried out by two members of a ultra-conservative offshoot of Mormonism, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Krakauer uses alternating chapters to recount a history of the Mormons, and the story of the offshoot and the murder.

Over Thanksgiving I read Where Men Win Glory, which is Krakauers account of Pat Tillman's life and death. I admit that I didn't find it as compelling as his other work, and I think it's because I was (admittedly) less interested in Tillman's bio than I was in the military's attempt to hide the cause of his death. Krakauer covers it, but the bio is most of the book.

Anywaaaaayyy...

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