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Overall, a great story. I can't really relate to Chris's life, but I know quite a few people who are similar to him. The author tells us that many people look down on Chris for how he distanced himself from his family, how he died, and how he attempted something many see as pointless. Although I can see both sides of the story, it is always easy for others to judge and compare others to themsleves. I may not have chose the same path, but I know everyone is so different, Chris must have felt he h
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Overall, this is an incredibly well-written and compelling piece of creative nonfiction. Subjectwise, like a lot of people I kept flipping back and forth between being upset at how callous Chris was toward the people who loved him, and appreciating the kind of transcendentalist aesthetic he wanted to represent. The historical contextualizing and meandering storytelling worked well. Krakauer's writing kept me reading, even when I had the horrors over the unintentional, lonely deaths he describes,
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An engrossing biography of Chris McCandless, a young adult who is found dead in an abandoned bus in the Alaska wild. This is a great story about agency and consequences.
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