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A review by mymiddlename123
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Did not finish book.
DNF
When I first started reading this book I was kind of excited about it. I never really read biographies or non-fiction books so it was a bit of a change of pace. The beginning of the book read pretty well and told a good story about those who came into contact with Chris during his last year or so.
However, it began to get very repetitive and very dry getting into around page 100. I think it would have been easier to read if it had been written in a chronological order instead of jumping around the past 2 years of his life so much. It became hard to keep track of when was when and who was who without looking back a couple pages. I didn't like this part of it.
I also was looking forward to finding out what the whole point was. I kept seeing Chris as a stubborn and foolish person who was just set in his own ways without really thinking of how it affected others. I suppose I could see that he was lost, in some ways, and was looking for the answers to something. But who isn't? I always feel a sense of being lost and looking for these answers, but it doesn't mean I would risk my life to such a degree as Chris did.
When it comes down to it I couldn't finish the book. I got to Chapter 14 where the author starts relating to Chris on his own level and I couldn't really read anymore. It just became super repetitive with the last note to Westerberg (I believe it was the 3rd time it was talked about) and I just couldn't stay in the story.
Mind you, I am not a huge non-fiction fan and I have not read a lot of biographies, but it would have been so much easier to follow if it could have perhaps started at the death (like it did), then chronologically gone through the last 2 years with the information he gathered. It was difficult to follow the way it was written.
It's an interesting story but overall I wasn't a big fan and I couldn't really relate to pushing my family away in that way and risking my life in the last days he was alive in Alaska. I just couldn't relate and I couldn't finish it.
When I first started reading this book I was kind of excited about it. I never really read biographies or non-fiction books so it was a bit of a change of pace. The beginning of the book read pretty well and told a good story about those who came into contact with Chris during his last year or so.
However, it began to get very repetitive and very dry getting into around page 100. I think it would have been easier to read if it had been written in a chronological order instead of jumping around the past 2 years of his life so much. It became hard to keep track of when was when and who was who without looking back a couple pages. I didn't like this part of it.
I also was looking forward to finding out what the whole point was. I kept seeing Chris as a stubborn and foolish person who was just set in his own ways without really thinking of how it affected others. I suppose I could see that he was lost, in some ways, and was looking for the answers to something. But who isn't? I always feel a sense of being lost and looking for these answers, but it doesn't mean I would risk my life to such a degree as Chris did.
When it comes down to it I couldn't finish the book. I got to Chapter 14 where the author starts relating to Chris on his own level and I couldn't really read anymore. It just became super repetitive with the last note to Westerberg (I believe it was the 3rd time it was talked about) and I just couldn't stay in the story.
Mind you, I am not a huge non-fiction fan and I have not read a lot of biographies, but it would have been so much easier to follow if it could have perhaps started at the death (like it did), then chronologically gone through the last 2 years with the information he gathered. It was difficult to follow the way it was written.
It's an interesting story but overall I wasn't a big fan and I couldn't really relate to pushing my family away in that way and risking my life in the last days he was alive in Alaska. I just couldn't relate and I couldn't finish it.