Into The Wild BookInto The Wild was a book written by Jon Krakauer that chronicles the journey and final years of the life of Christopher McCandless.

His journey was one of self exploration where he was essentially a modern day tramp that began traveling the country by various means and culminated with his big trip into the Alaskan wilderness where he met his untimely demise.  Depending on who you talk to this journey will be viewed as either a great adventure and triumph of the human spirit or simply a stupid and foolish action taken by a young person.

What I Liked?

I really enjoy the subject matter of this book.  I have always enjoyed concepts like wilderness survival and freedom of the human spirit so this book would naturally appeal to me.  In addition, I enjoy reading Krakauer’s books as he writes in neutral viewpoint that brings in similar stories that relate in various ways to the main story.  Here, he pulled examples of other wilderness survival stories which me being a history buff enjoy reading and think it adds to the overall story.  Another thing I liked about this story is that Krakauer does not limit himself to one perspective in writing this book.  He is perfectly ok taking different point of views for viewing the information which I also like as it helps seem to give a fairer review of the material.  Instead, of deciding the issue for you, he gives you all the information and leaves you to form you own opinion.

What I Did Not Like?

There wasn’t much I did not like about this book.  In fact, I am having trouble coming up with anything that is noteworthy.  Perhaps the book would have been better if they tried to explore the ideals likely conveyed by Christopher McCandless.  However, this would have been purely conjecture based on what evidence is available.

Overall Review

I really enjoyed this book and would liken it to other books like “On The Road” that will certainly strike a chord with certain people.  I give this book an A possibly an A+.  Not everyone will read this book the same way and get the same experience out of it.  However, no one can disagree with the good writing and an interesting story all the same.  If you would like to buy this book, click on the following link: Into The Wild.