Into the wild
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meganh
of Preston, Victoria Australia on 9/29/2011
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
meganh of Preston, Victoria Australia on 9/29/2011 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Purchased this copy from an Op Shop on our recent road trip. Here is what I thought of it when I read it seven years ago.-
I started this book Saturday afternoon and finished it by evening on Sunday. It was impossible to put down for long, Krakauer wrote this book in a manner which was very readable and it was interesting to have his own similar background interposed in the story. I felt sad for Chris McCandless's parents - they did not deserve their son's rejection and the grief his death caused them, but Chris had different ideals than them and was determined to fulfill them. He was incredibly influenced by a number of writers - Jack London (perhaps we should all read The Call of the Wild to see how he was so affected), and Tolstoy and Thoreau in particular.
His trek to the Alaskan frontier and Krakauer's stories of others who had headed there similarly, reminded me a little of Darwin in the Northern Territory in Australia which is a frontier town populated by many who don't want to fit into conventional society.
An excellent book.
I started this book Saturday afternoon and finished it by evening on Sunday. It was impossible to put down for long, Krakauer wrote this book in a manner which was very readable and it was interesting to have his own similar background interposed in the story. I felt sad for Chris McCandless's parents - they did not deserve their son's rejection and the grief his death caused them, but Chris had different ideals than them and was determined to fulfill them. He was incredibly influenced by a number of writers - Jack London (perhaps we should all read The Call of the Wild to see how he was so affected), and Tolstoy and Thoreau in particular.
His trek to the Alaskan frontier and Krakauer's stories of others who had headed there similarly, reminded me a little of Darwin in the Northern Territory in Australia which is a frontier town populated by many who don't want to fit into conventional society.
An excellent book.
Journal Entry 2 by meganh at 2019 Bookcrossing unConvention in Burnt Pine, Norfolk Island Australia on Sunday, October 13, 2019
meganh at 2019 Bookcrossing unConvention in Burnt Pine, Norfolk Island Australia on Sunday, October 13, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (10/20/2019 UTC) at 2019 Bookcrossing unConvention in Burnt Pine, Norfolk Island Australia
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