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

Heather
I recently finished reading Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and I was disappointed. It came as no great shock (having recently read Into Thin Air) that Jon Krakauer took minimal facts about a young man he didn't even know and created a 'nonfiction' story linking these facts together. While the story in itself was interesting, I don't believe that Krakauer had the right to embellish these facts about a real human being and his family. If I was in McCandless' family I would be annoyed at the amount of creative license Krakauer granted himself while telling this real life event. Jon Krakauer needs to learn that there is a fine line in journalism between what is acceptable and what's not. Human beings shouldn't be submitted to fabricated exposures of the unknown (seemingly to all but Krakauer) events surrounding the death of their loved ones. Krakauer needs to pull himself away from his hedonistic views and consider someone else besides himself and his pursuits that 'border on obsession'.