OTHERS' OPINIONS ON WHETHER TO READ OR NOT TO READ I Amazon.com Review "God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless, wh
Gah... (I) I went and spent an entire afternoon changing (ahem, figuring out how to change) this page. As you can see. Hopefully. That's all. xx Tracy WHAT I'M READING AT THE MOMENT: Grr... erm. - Snap Happy by Fiona Walker Was a bust. - Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Haven't started it yet - but planning on it. - Into the Wild by Krakauer It's happening... slowly. Will post a short review from amazon.com in a minute. - Pip by Freya North About to read it... NOW. P.S. I'm open to book suggestions.