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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is one of my favorite books. I still have yet to find a story that affected me as much as this one. (  )littypoo | Jun 12, 2009 |   This is one of my favourite books; it's a sad story but so compelling. Some people might find it hard to sympathize with Chris McCandless - he didn't seem to care much about his own safety; but at the same time many people will admire his bravery. I think a lot of people would love to just disappear and go on adventures across the states but would never actually do it. The author does write about himself a bit too much, but the rest of the book had me gripped. (  )bookworm_17 | May 21, 2009 | Read this before the movie and found it very compelling. To follow this young man on his fated trek to find something solely his was like living it myself. I knew that kind of thing when I was young. Actually I know it now. To find himself alone and trapped in an abandoned bus in Alaska dying of something he ate was surely a grueling was to go. This tale is the closest I've come to my youth in a long time, one I could easily have had. Trouble was, this boy died looking for himself. But then, that's how it usually works when we're very old. (  )Allaire9 | May 17, 2009 | 2 The book was somewhat effective for the Teen Problem Book project. 5 The book was excellent. I enjoyed it. I would use the book for your project, but it is a very in depth book and all problems are linked to one single problem. Maybe confusing for some people to use for their project. (  )MsZellner | May 8, 2009 | Pretty good, though I just skimmed some bits. A very fast read. And so sad to see such potential wasted - that Chris was so smart and yet so dim about certain things. And clearly very charismatic - he seems to have made life-altering impressions on everyone he met. ( )kirstenr | May 6, 2009 | 0.059 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0385486804, Paperback)"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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