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Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer

Into The Wild

by Jon Krakauer
  • Critics' Consensus (9):
  • Readers' Rating (131):
  • First Published:
  • Dec 1, 1995, 207 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Feb 1997, 255 pages
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Pa

I'm reading the book for my english class and I think it's well writen. However, the book wasn't that interresting. I love the writting style and the way the author anquiered the informations. When I read the book, I couldn't really remember everything that happened since it was just different accounts of different people that met him. I mean, if you like those kind of books, read it. You may learn a lot from it about yourself and how you view life.
Sarah Ferguson

I didn't like your book. Its evil and the book made no sense. It's based on other people's stories and that they knew him and that he was a good kid excepat that he had a temper so thats why he left his family. But nobody really knows and the book tells you almost nothing that makes sense and that the other stories don't go along with what happened to him and the other men that have dead in the wild of Alaska. It is a beautiful place but too many people want to live on the land and you can't live off the land without the proper tools.
Mandy

Only for nature/wilderness obssessed... I didn't like it and it was hard for me to get through.
Jane

I think the book held a special spot for any nature lover, but the organization of this book is very muddy. One minute the author is talking
about one thing and before you know what happened he is talking about something else completelyoff the subject from the plot and the story.
I do't entirely agree with the way the book was planned out and the way it was written.
darby

The book Into The Wild was about a kid who packs up and leaves his family and friends to go off into the wilderness. Chris wasn't prepared to go off by himself. This caused Chris to die, anyone willing to pack up and leave without telling anyone where he's going and without taking enough supplies to live is asking for a death wish and thats what Chris basicly did. I really didn't care for this book. This book was the type of book that gave some students mainly boys the idea to go off in to the wilderness just to see if they could make it. The book was very slow it put me to sleep half the time. Sure the book has lots of facts, but hhow do we know they are all true? We dont none of us really knows what happened while he was out there. I wouldn't tell people they should read this book. Unless they are the type of people who like boring books with facts that may not be true. Then this book would be the book they should read.
Jesse

The book Into The Wild is about a young man who go's on an edventure. Mc Candless decides, upon his graduation from collage, to leave his family and give all his money to a chairty. Mc Candless decides to go to the Western part of the United States to explore and discover new things. After all his adventures he lands him self in Alaska where he was found dead in a bus.
I'm not that good at reading and understanding. I personally diden't like tthis book because I thought that it jumped around a lot. Into The Wild is a hard book to get into and follow. the only reason that I attempted to read this is because it was assinged in class. I tried hard but only got to page 57.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who has trouble understanding or can't read very well. Don't take my word for it. Read it for yourself.


Katrina Herbert

Jon Krakauer did a horrible job at being non partial. He gave too much of his opinion and it was a horrible book. Chris was too confident and that led to his death not eating the plant. He needed to be better prepared and if he were he would have walked out unharmed.
Tony Danza

The worst book, I have ever read.

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