Just read a great book. ..

percysnow · 06-27-2007, 11:49 AM

Into the Wild. .. (based on a true story)

After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature.

http://www.amazon.com/Into-Wild-Jon-.../dp/0385486804

Infidel Goat · 06-27-2007, 11:52 AM

Good book.

Same guy who wrote Into Thin Air and, more recently, Under the Banner of Heaven.

I think I like Into Thin Air (dealing with Mt. Everest disaster) the best.

**noa** · 06-27-2007, 11:53 AM

Yeah, great book. They actually just finished shooting the movie version. Not sure when its going to be released.

percysnow · 06-27-2007, 01:50 PM

can someone up the embedded trailer?

**noa** · 06-27-2007, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by percysnow

can someone up the embedded trailer?

Braincase · 06-27-2007, 02:09 PM

Movie trailer is out there... good news is that Sean Penn dies in the end...

**Baby Lee** · 04-22-2015, 10:16 PM

I'm posting the update here, because last time I tried to piggy-back a prior Krakauer thread, it turned into a rehash of Into Thin Air instead.

Interview with author on new book Missoula;

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/22/roll..._had_to_write/

Psyko Tek · 04-22-2015, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by percysnow

Into the Wild. .. (based on a true story)

After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature.

http://www.amazon.com/Into-Wild-Jon-.../dp/0385486804

so affluenza meets Darwinism?
and proves evolution works?

**Baby Lee** · 04-22-2015, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Psyko Tek

so affluenza meets Darwinism?
and proves evolution works?

Welcome to Earth. Refreshments are in the den.

Sweet Daddy Hate · 04-23-2015, 07:18 AM

My next read is "In to your Mom", a true story about myself and Hootie's mother.

Thank you.

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