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

i thought this book was a sensational read. this book put pespective on the disions of a young mans last years at life. this book is great for a peson who enjoys hikking or any wilderness activity for that matter. Jon Krakauer is a great author. reading this book led me to read more than i had ever done before. i am now in the process of reading another one of his books.( Into Thin Air).

Not bad, you have to like adventure books

this book was way bad..dont read it...it was confusing and i had to do a huge project on it and it was extremely hard to do...
PEACE OUT

I finished this book, and the only redeeming quality was it was quick. The bad part was reading a hopelessly idealistic young man venture into the Alaskan wilderness to literally live off the land, only to realize his error and die a stupid death. What is so romantic about it? Trying to be Jack London? Starving a lonely, cold death because you thought that you could make such an unforgiving realm work? That's your best accomplishment? As smart as Chris was (with his freshly minted Emory degree), he wasn't smart enough to know that his arrogant, foolhardy and excessively naive outlook ultimately got him dead. The sad part is he passed the point of no return to learn that lesson, something he never could learn about in his Tolstoy or Thoreau books.

My other beef was the author trying to compare his experience to that of Chris McCandless' fatal adventure. Again he seems all too happy to try and spin a "Noble young lad that I once was whose only fault was to die," kind of tale. Jon Krakauer may be trying to channel some of that pure adventurism (more like let's see how close to the sun I can fly without the wax melting) or star struck, I don't know. The comparison to others like McCandless only worked to describe others that have tried to do what Chris did (and died like him) before him. I think the author fell too hard for Chris's story since he was once like Chris, which has warped his writing of the situation and kills any objectivity that is sorely lacking here. Glossing over people who are gratuitously cocky - and die as a result - as great adventurers is not my idea of a morality tale type of story.

Ithink is book is great. It keeps you interested throughout the whole book. Great story line and plus its a true story so that makes it that much more interesting

Although i had to read it for my english class... I was more than happy to finish the book.

Good sstory about the adventure of a young man and his journey to alaska.

it was a book