What readers think of Into The Wild, plus links to write your own review.

This book was about a young man, Chris McCanadless, going out into the wild with little money and clothing trying to survive. He did well for the first part of his journey, but when he went into Alaska he ran into a few problems.(like killing the moose, he took care of it like the South Dakotians took care of their meat.When in fact he should of cut it into thin pieces and let it dry.) This book was composed of little detail of McCandless's life with the author filling in the blanks.
I liked most of the book except the chapter when Krakauer discusses McCandless's family (it doesn't really talk about McCandless and his father.) The part I really liked was when he got a moose, because that was me. I would be thrilled and exhilerated most of the time.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read about adventure. I would let someone read it that wants to go out into the wild and live off the land for as long as they want. Maybe it will tell them to be well prepared for nature.

Into The Wild, a non-fiction book by Jon Krakauar, really pulls you into the story. It's about a boy that could have anything he wanted. But instead, after he graduated from a very good college, he gave the money he had in savings to charity. He wanted to wander around the United States. He had the ambition to go out on his own. He spent most of his time in the Western United States. When he was done there he headed up to live in the Alaskan Wilderness.
I liked this book a lot. I thought it was adventerous with a good meaning. This book should be a kind of warning to people who want to go out and live by themselves in Alaska or wherever. It's not easy if you have no experience or preperations.
Krakauer also describes his own situation where he almost died and gave examples of others who had tried the same things and failed.
I think Krakauer should have stated further information about Chris's death and more about his parents. I recommend this book to anyone who liked non-fiction books about real people in real situations and by a good author.

I liked the book Into The Wild. Jon Krakauer explained very well the different events in the story and how Chris just did not care about city life and wanted to go off on his own adventure and experience life from from the wild.
I disliked the story because the author Jon Krakauer did not spend enough time telling us about his childhood or his parents. That would have been good because the reader might be able to understand why Chris just took off without any good reason.
I would recomend this book to another reader. It is very catching book and it is hard to put down after you have started to read it.

The author does a good job of piecing together the travels of the main character, but I could definitely tell the author was much enamored of this "child". For that is exactly what he was.... a spoiled rich child. I felt no sorrow or sympathy for his outcome.

I've read everything Jon Krakauer has written, and have always enjoyed his books from the point of view of someone who spends a lot of time playing in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. His style always strikes me as a bit overblown however, like he's trying too hard to create great literature.

Into the Wild feels like an expanded magazine article. There's a lot of filler in this very short book. This is one of the few cases in my experience where I'd recommend the movie over the book.

Good structure... Well written by a man who has previous experience with these types of situations... Very Enjoyable to read... Needs more of a climax!

Hi all mountain aficionados

Since " Into thin Air " Krakauer is one of favorite mountaineering writer."In to The Wild. Good writing. However it does occasionally remind me of good ol Jack London.

Good climbing. Carry on...


Only one remark: Please use the metric system - in brackets like IHT or the New York Times. "His backpack weighed 40 pounds!"- I don't have a clue. I have to stop reading. Connect my internet and convert to kilograms. It cheeses me off!


New York Times have gone metric inch by inch (in brackets)

Why can't you go metric. You can't change Jon Krakauer according to him the peaks are in in feet!

But the editor of the publishing house should edit the text and change it in to kilograms, meters, accordingly


Europe is metric. Asia is going metric!

I live in South East Asia - Thailand. We are using the metric system we use the metric phone time 15.00 hours not 3 PM.

Keep climbing.


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Not bad, you have to like adventure books