Into The Wild

[Furtherman]

Fantastic book by Jon Krakauer about the true story of Chris McCandless, a kid with a bright, comfortable future ahead of him who gave it all up to hike to Alaska.

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There is a movie coming out about it this fall.

Here is the trailer:

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Well, it's "inspired by" and not "based on" and for anyone who read the book you can tell right away there will be some stuff added to this story.

But on the plus side it has a great cast and a good director, Sean Penn.

[BoondockSaint]

Cool. I love that book and the movie looks interesting. I also like his book "Into Thin Air" about when he climbed Everest.

[JPMNICK]

I have been looking for 4-5 good books to bring with me to aruba this summer. I am writing this one down and will pick it up.

[Thomas Merton]

I have been looking for 4-5 good books to bring with me to aruba this summer. I am writing this one down and will pick it up.


Add "Under the Banner of Heaven" as well, an eye opener about Mormons and polygamy.

[JPMNICK]

Add "Under the Banner of Heaven" as well, an eye opener about Mormons and polygamy.

thanks so much. i have 100 dollar GC to barnes and nobel, so i will def pick that up.

[Mike Teacher]

The Krakauer books are just stunning; 'Into the Wild' is a sad tale, but shows wonderfully how cruel but fair nature really is.

'Into Thin Air' has a personal tinge for me; my brother knows Beck Weathers. Climbed with Beck Weathers, gotten drunk with Beck Weathers. Introduced me to Beck. And when you read what happened; there are few books that bring tears to the eyes as you read them, make you gasp and drop the book and say out loud 'There's no fucking way this is happening, no way... oh my god no way...'

and it really happened. The 96 Everest disaster is a story that would make a movie that would be so fanstastic, I'm just not sure people could believe such a thing could happen, that people could do such things, and survive the things people like Beck did.

The IMAX Movie 'Everest' is stunning in that it shows the mountain in all its deadly awesome beauty, and the IMAX team was on the mountain during the disaster, and helped as they could.

[JPMNICK]

The Krakauer books are just stunning; 'Into the Wild' is a sad tale, but shows wonderfully how cruel but fair nature really is.

'Into Thin Air' has a personal tinge for me; my brother knows Beck Weathers. Climbed with Beck Weathers, gotten drunk with Beck Weathers. Introduced me to Beck. And when you read what happened; there are few books that bring tears to the eyes as you read them, make you gasp and drop the book and say out loud 'There's no fucking way this is happening, no way... oh my god no way...'

and it really happened. The 96 Everest disaster is a story that would make a movie that would be so fanstastic, I'm just not sure people could believe such a thing could happen, that people could do such things, and survive the things people like Beck did.

The IMAX Movie 'Everest' is stunning in that it shows the mountain in all its deadly awesome beauty, and the IMAX team was on the mountain during the disaster, and helped as they could.

Just finished Into Thin Air, and right away picked up Into the Wild.

Mike summed it up perfectly. As you get 1/2 into the book, you almost start to disbelieve that the events could happen. I really liked the explanation of what it is like to be at altitude. The amazing part of the story is how the author in the beginning says that climbing everest is not really looked at by the hardcore climbers as a tough climb technically. there are many mountains that are much harder to climb. it is really the altitude that fucks with everyone. and seeing what being up that high does to the human body is outstanding.

In one part of the book, he talks about being on the plane on his way to Nepal, and thinking to himself, in a month I will be as high on everest as this plane is flying right now. The book was SO well written, and described everything so well, that the entire time I thought about what a great movie this would be

[LordJezo]

Finally got around to seeing this last night.

When it was first over my initial reaction was "What a fucking shitting pile of garbage" and I was pretty angry at wasting my time with it.

But then I calmed down and thought it over for a bit and realized it was not the movie that I hated, but the main character. The movie itself was shot pretty nicely and looked great. The supporting everyone in it did their jobs very well, but the whole attitude of the main character and his mental illness of wanting to go live in nature (no, man, it's you have you the mental illness, anyone who wants to live in this society is crazy, man!) really pissed me off, especially when he burned all his money. Early on in the movie, I had no idea how it ended, I said how I hoped the guy would die. I think I hated him more than I ever have any other person in a movie.

I thought this movie was about some dude who went camping, if I had known it was going to be ultimate hippie hates on society and moves into the woods I don't think I would have bothered, but oh well, it's done now.