Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0385486804 Global Overview for this book
Registered by quietorchid of Saint Paul, Minnesota USA on 4/11/2013
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Journal Entry 1 by quietorchid from Saint Paul, Minnesota USA on Thursday, April 11, 2013
A young man, trying to find meaning in the world, chucks everything to go off and live simply in the Alaskan wilderness. Very sad. Part of the generation who feel the world is asafe place, having grown up with that idea. It doesn't work. Kraukauer does a creditable job.

Released 10 yrs ago (4/13/2013 UTC) at Little Free Library - Summit W (#0428) in Saint Paul, Minnesota USA

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Journal Entry 3 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Saint Paul, Minnesota USA on Wednesday, June 19, 2013
I enjoyed 'Into the Wild'. But it is sad and pathetic. When I was young (a long time ago) I was completely taken by the book, 'Cache Lake Country', by John J Rowlands. The connection is that that book also has to do with someone living in the wilds, alone. The big difference is that Rowlands was completely prepared and competent. Now that I'm older, I don't, however, see the romanticism at all. What was Rowlands doing way up there in the woods all alone? Had he gone through a bad divorce? Had he no desire for a sex life? Some of those same questions come up with 'Into the Wild'. And I can't help feeling that McCandless was performing for an assumed audience, maybe his parents. But the book is totally worth the read.

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