Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

27 reviews

alexcraig's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Grief

agatha_hopkins's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

3.0

Not one of my favorite books, but it was a decent read. Read as part of our sort of "Transcendentalism" unit in school. I had already read a review about the book, which most definitely led to a biased viewpoint, but I would probably have drawn a similar viewpoint.

This book was well-written, and the author, Jon Krakauer, clearly went into much effort and research to put it together.
That said, despite the author's attempt to convince me that what Chris McCandless did was noble and mature, I found much evidence to the contrary.

 

The credibility also begins to fall apart at the end with the speculation about the specific way that he died. Sure, Chris was generous, but he was far from humble. He believed in his ability to be able to conquer the wilderness to the point that it got himself killed. He almost died in the desert, but that only convinced him to pursue it further.

I lack the ability to relate to Chris. I consider myself smart, but I would never consider myself clever enough to say I know everything I need to know.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Infidelity, Grief, and Dysphoria

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Mentions how his body changes from starvation and living off the wild.

mollz235's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious sad medium-paced

5.0

Loved it. It held my interest better than any book in a while. It's a heartbreaking story, but Krakauer makes you wonder about a lot of things.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Medical trauma

kendal_reads's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide

neverlandingonabook's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

chelle22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Cannibalism, and Abandonment

crssmith's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

mandyrose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, and Grief

Minor: Animal death

joshmacaroni's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

loz1327's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Minor: Animal death