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"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, <I>Into the Wild</I> does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." <I>Into the Wild</I> shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.

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A small part of me appreciates the effort Krakauer put into researching this book. A much bigger part of me is completely disgusted both with McCa...more...]]> 2 24 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 17:18:05 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 12:10:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 14 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 00:10:42 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 14 18:05:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 9 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Feb 16 14:23:19 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 15:54:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 14 false false Mon Jun 04 16:48:16 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 07:13:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 7 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 03 14:34:06 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 09:12:17 -0700 2008
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However, this book mostly served as a reminder of why I don't like to read books wri...more...]]> 5 11 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 17:03:20 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 14 12:09:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 7 false false Fri Feb 22 13:41:14 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 15:21:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 5 false false Fri Jul 04 01:40:39 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 19:10:08 -0700 2008
Namun akan halnya Chriss Mc. Candless, penemuannya tak kan pernah dapat diingatnya sendiri, karena ia telah melebur bersamanya.

Menyisakan sesak...more...]]> 4 5 false false Tue Apr 22 00:56:42 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 21:39:38 -0700 2008
Menceritakan tentang seorang Chris McCandless, seorang lelaki yang sangat dipengaruhi oleh karya2 Tolstoy, Thoreau dan Jack London yang memutuskan untuk berpisah dengan ...more...]]> 4 5 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Mon Dec 31 17:43:58 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 18:02:20 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 6 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 26 20:13:23 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 20:13:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 9 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 20:29:40 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 21:27:21 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 7 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 20:46:07 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 21:17:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 4 false false Wed Dec 03 04:29:35 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 08 06:36:50 -0700 2009 [If you don't already know the basic story of what happened to Chris McCandless, then this review will contain spoilers:].

After graduating with honors from Emory University, Chris McCandless opted out of law school, and instead gave all of his savings ($24,000 worth) to charity, abandone...more...]]> 2 3 false false Sat Jan 19 14:42:58 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 14:44:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 30 18:29:25 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 19 11:08:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 18:13:22 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 12:59:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 5 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Thu Oct 11 19:45:17 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 20:02:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=441013