into the wild
finished this book today. i definitely cried. it isn't as if i didn't know the ending! i realize that i am clueless about what is going on in this little world but i wish someone had told me about this book. apparently it is a movie that came out "fall 2007" or whatever that means. it must be code for "you won't even know it is a movie here in Hickahoma". one reason i will be glad to be a "texan"; movies really will come out in "fall 2007"! not that i am really going to be a technical texan. or actually that is precisely what i will be. but i won't be a texan in my heart. sorry, rambling. okay so the story of this boy is just going to be one of those things with which i am obsessed and of which i cannot let go. last nite i had stephanie on the trail to find actual pictures of christopher (the boy in the story). no such luck. there is one and only one picture that can be found and it is the one i already have in the book! so what i learned from this book:
1. i am a sucker for sad stories.
2. don't eat moldy things; you never know what could happen. especially if you are in a semi-starving condition.
3. the author (not my favorite writing per se, but the story is irrestible) has written other books that i would like to read.
4. people in alaska are bizarre. they call their state "the 49th state". that's weird. they all seem to be adventurey-type people and consider "death by the land/nature/elements" a welcome inevitability. it is going to happen. when is the only negotiable.
5. there is a lot out there happening in this country for which i don't even have the lexicon. apparently hitchhiking is a way of life for some people and it is on purpose and perpetual and not b/c they are homeless (which if they are, that too, is intentional) or their cars broke down or they can't afford the bus.
it was a weird book but i am glad to have read it.
1. i am a sucker for sad stories.
2. don't eat moldy things; you never know what could happen. especially if you are in a semi-starving condition.
3. the author (not my favorite writing per se, but the story is irrestible) has written other books that i would like to read.
4. people in alaska are bizarre. they call their state "the 49th state". that's weird. they all seem to be adventurey-type people and consider "death by the land/nature/elements" a welcome inevitability. it is going to happen. when is the only negotiable.
5. there is a lot out there happening in this country for which i don't even have the lexicon. apparently hitchhiking is a way of life for some people and it is on purpose and perpetual and not b/c they are homeless (which if they are, that too, is intentional) or their cars broke down or they can't afford the bus.
it was a weird book but i am glad to have read it.
posted by courtney jewett at 6:26 PM
3 Comments:
that was fast. I've read "under the banner of heaven" by krakauer about Mormons. It was fascinating. My brother has read probably all his books and highly recommends them. I need to finish "into the wild" now that I'm interested.
i really want to read "into thin air" about mt. everest disaster! well, i want to read them all!
Under the Banner of Heaven gave ME nightmares about being married off to a 50 year old uncle.
I read Into Thin Air. I didn't know what it was about and it was great.
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