In 1992, a privileged twenty-two-year-old slacker white dude Tyler Durden-wannabe with a head full of Jack London, Tolstoy, and Thoreau gave away his college fund and went on a walkabout beginning in California and ending in Alaska, where he died of starvation. And it was all basically to give the f...
Julie lives a pretty normal life. She has a mother who loves her, a great best friend, and typical middle school issues. The only thing that makes her different is the fact that she is constantly surrounded by the stuff of fairy tales - literally. Her mother, Rapunzel (Zel) found a way to escape ...
Hay un capitulo de Los Simpsons donde Springfield entero està conmocionado con la noticia de un chico que quedò atrapado en un pozo ; ignorantes , por supuesto , de que era todo Una farsa arreglada por Bart . Fijense en este diàlogo.Marge: Señor, antes de disfrutar de nuestros alimentos, te pedimos ...
This book broke my heart. I will forever be haunted by the story of Chris McCandless. You'll admire his tenacity and wanderlust, his willingness to give up a privileged lifestyle, and you'll want to slap him upside the head for his naivete at thinking he could take on the brutal Denali wilderness ...
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wal...
Another one I will probably finish at some point, but there are so many more books I want to read...------------------------------------I've wanted to read this book for a while now but never seemed to run across it (although I can't tell you how many times I've seen copies of Krakauer's "Into Thin ...
I was a little disappointed with this book. I expected more details of Chris' life on the road, and the details of his solitude in Alaska, but apparently there isn't much of a record. Instead we are regaled with stories of other adventurers (including the author) who have slipped off the grid to att...
THIS BOOK COMES WITH A WARNING.. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOMEPeople say McCandless is an perfect example of a lunatic, a hormone pumped teen who was disillusioned by the spectre of society. They say he should have trained himself before going into wilderness. Here is a news flash people he ran away from ...
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