Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

35 reviews

zara89's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective fast-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Minor: Mental illness and Excrement

albon's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Animal death

eracenet's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

4.0

Story emphasizes much more on outside stories than the story of Chris/Alex, which wasn't necessarily a negative, just not what I'd expected from the story. Story heavily relies on recounts by miscellaneous individuals who interacted with Chris/Alex. The book also regularly discusses adventures of the author that are largely independent of the story, aside from describing how he and Chris/Alex are alike. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Death

Minor: Racism and Suicide

jul_grk's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

natashaball's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

I enjoyed the way the book was written - intertwined with Chris’ story was the author’s and the way he found out the information he then used to write the book.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death

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

maddypat's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I really enjoyed Into the Wild. Aside from how well-written and well-researched it is, I think my favorite thing about this book was how it had me considering for days how I viewed this tragedy and how I viewed Chris McCandless. It was a constant oscillation between believing him to be ignorant and wishful versus believing him to just be a hopeful dreamer that bad luck befell at the worst time. I actually didn't know much of anything about Chris McCandless before reading this book, including how he came to die in the Alaskan bush. Krakauer's explanation of all the events leading up to his death paints a fantastic picture of a man who, I think, ultimately died because of something that no one could have anticipated. It's a sad yet somehow inspiring story.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death

kc_booklove's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative medium-paced

3.0

I wish it had been written in chronological order but other than that a decent read. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Cannibalism

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

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