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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

15 reviews

jacqualina's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Injury/Injury detail

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.

dstone6298's review against another edition

adventurous reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

One of my first, and likely to be few, 5 star reads. I read it within 48 hours, which was very uncharacteristic of my reading habits; Into the Wild was a book that I just could not put down. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

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

magsbord's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Suicide

amateureverything04's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

Excellent book; Krakauer’s ability to conjure such specific and powerful emotions in a reader with his writing remains unmatched. The section about his summit of Devil’s Thumb is one of the best passages I’ve ever read. Only knock .75 stars because the first half feels slightly bogged down by lengthy exposition, but that’s nitpicking.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, and Injury/Injury detail

emilymbrown's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative fast-paced

3.75

read it for ap lang lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

lucy12345's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective sad medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Injury/Injury detail

kelly_e's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Title: Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
Genre: Non Fiction
Rating: 3.75
Pub Date: January 13, 1996

T H R E E • W O R D S

Tragic • Mysterious • Absorbing

📖 S Y N O P S I S

In April 1992, Christopher Johnson McCandless donated his savings to charity, abandoned his car along with most of his possessions, and burned all of the cash in his wallet before hitch hiking to Alaska, where he walked into the wilderness to create a new life for himself. Four months later his decomposed body was discovered by a moose hunter. In Into the Wild Jon Krakauer reconstructs the tragic true-story of how he came to die in the wilderness.

💭 T H O U G H T S

This is one of those books that has sat unread on my shelf for far too long. I decided to tandem read a physical copy along with listening to the audio, and I appreciated this experience more than I anticipate I would have had a done either alone.

Krakauer has delivered an objective and comprehensive account, neither praising or critiquing Chris, of what lead to his death. It's is obvious he has thoroughly researched and investigated this case, and the narrative is extremely interesting and well-written. Krakauer captures the essence of nature unlike anyone else.

As someone who values time spent in nature (by no means do I consider myself to be an expert) this book really opened my eyes to the realization that mistakes do happen, even to the most skilled of expeditioners. I was interested in the story, but also saw this as a cautionary tale.

Overall, a worthwhile reading experience that left me reflecting and wanting to know more.

📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• fans of Wild and/or Between a Rock and a Hard Place
• travel enthusiasts

🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S

"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."

"I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, and Classism