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

This book is way boring! The writing keeps jumping from his Jon's life and Chris's. He just should have stuck to the story!

I tried to read this book but 6 chapters in I fell asleep. I forgot to finish the book after I tried another two times to read it and fell asleep again.

its awful i had to try really hard not to find a different book to read i hated it

Chris Mccandless may be selfish to the feelings of his family, but he is a pioneer and inspiration to those of us looking to strip ourselves from society. Those of us striving for a simple life, a life containing not much more than solitude and daily struggle for existence. A life free of anyone looking over the shoulder. A life of complete freedom from restriction and rule. One can imagine how difficult it is to live alone, totally dependent of oneself, and in complete acceptance of ones responsibilities for survival. Now I see this 'expedition' as a temporary endeavor- 'to go searching' is a term we use. but this endeavor for Chris was much more personal. This realization was meant to cleanse him from all his childhood discomforts and mistreatments. Therefore, I want to congratulate Chris for making this leap of humanly faith and reaching out to grab that feeling we all desire.That feeling that helps us explain our existence and justify our means. Whatever motivation may drive us to take the leap.

The Movie was a good movie in a sense that it was a story that needed to be told. If it was not told, then people would not know about the story, hence it would not exist because it wasn't told. Get it?

Ok, so my opinion about the story was that it was very sad for a brilliant man, with a college education on his was to become a successful contributor to society, HUMAN SOCIETY, went out in the wild, and to go to Alaska to freeze himself to death to prove his own worth. I ask Why?

Humans are not meant for the wild. I felt that he disrespected the wilderness because he thought he could conquer it. You cannot conquer wilderness. Only wild animals can.

He was very selfish for leaving his family like that. Even though it was disfunctional, with his abusive father and parents and stuff, he left them forever instead of trying to be there for them. That was his situation. Not to be in the wilderness, ALONE?!!?!?!!

In history people that lived out in the sticks, always had a clan or some sort. A family or group they belonged to to overcome the obstacles or the wilderness and survival. AS A GROUP.

When he killed the moose for meat. He had no experience on how to clean it or cut it for food. He didn't have any help. We all need help. Even wild animals.

The story is very sad. I feel very sorry for Chris.

Dom
I think Krakauers novel, Into the Wild was a good book.

Darryl
Haunting book. Krakauer's embellishments, if any, are conservative to anyone who has considered an endeavor with the same true meaning of Chris McCandless's. McCandless may have made a few blunders in the view of a modern survivalist, but that was exactly his experiment...to see if a man with a good amount of common-sence could make it on his own in the wild, with the least amount of modern conveniences...at least in the view of a 24 year old. Anyone who is upset by this story is purely jealous of the cojones of this young man, and Krakauer's conservative explanation of why he did it.

Seth Wilcox
I thought that Into the Wild was very well written. I do not feel that Jon made up a lot of the things he wrote, but used actual facts. Chris McCandless' family should be glad that somebody told the truth and didn't label Chris as some nutcase on a suicide mission.