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ryanreadsstuff's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
lilyr2023's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
sarahetc's review
3.0
Interesting and very, very sad, the story of Chris McCandless's death is romantic in the way that can maim and kill, and literary in a spectrum from Thoreau past Kerouac into Kerouazy, if you'll pardon the term. Determined to live alone in the Alaskan bush, McCandless wanders into the wilderness at the end of April and lives until mid-August, when a few others find his corpse. Though they can never be completely sure what happened to him, it is likely that he starved to death. Krakauer's book tries to flesh out the details of his life, mine his motivations, and eulogize what many people scorned as ignorance and worse, arrogance.
loesje_kr's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
igalko's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.75
absj's review against another edition
5.0
Krakauer did a beautiful job of writing this biography neutrally and presenting all the opinions and stories of Mccandless from the people he met along the way
strawberry_seagull's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
I feel a strange kinship to Chris McCandless. The story of McCandless himself is something that I can personally relate to and find deeply emotional. Was it executed well in this book? That’s another question.
abbyls96's review against another edition
2.0
The book is good until chapters 14-15. Then it moves to Krakauer talking about a climb he did in Alaska and comparing himself to Chris. I could have gone without that. Since the story is not about what Krakauer did but about Chris’s story.