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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer | Biographies & Memoirs
Registered by wingMaryZeewing of Taneytown, Maryland USA on Sunday, March 09, 2008
Average 7 star rating by BookCrossing Members 

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Journal Entry 1 by wingMaryZeewing from Taneytown, Maryland USA on Sunday, March 09, 2008

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This was left, unregistered, on the OBCZ shelf at Three Fine Cups.

Review from Amazon -
"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.

I read this a few years ago on a BC bookring. Very good true story. 

Journal Entry 2 by wingMaryZeewing at Pour House Cafe in Westminster, Maryland USA on Sunday, March 09, 2008

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Released 4 yrs ago (3/9/2008 UTC) at Pour House Cafe in Westminster, Maryland USA

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Taking this to the BC meet today. If no one wants it, it will be left on the OBCZ shelf in the back room.

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Journal Entry 3 by krin511 from Olney, Maryland USA on Sunday, March 09, 2008

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Picked up at the Bookcrossing meetup in Westminster, Maryland. 

Journal Entry 4 by krin511 from Olney, Maryland USA on Friday, October 16, 2009

7 out of 10

This was an interesting book about not only Chris McCandless's tragic and unnecessary death, but about how someone's romantic view of nature can blind them to its harsh reality.
 



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