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Summary: Great Read, the author seems like a creep!
Review: I pretty much read this book in one sitting. I mean who doesn't like to read about human suffering, high adventure, crass commercialization, self-serving self-justification, possible cowardice, definite heroism, the incredible, the unbelievable, the infuriating, the funny, the sad, and the petty? This is truly a good read and I must say that it was awfully brave of the author to write and publish it, for in my opinion he comes off pretty badly. The guy seems to have been unable to resist printing every little unkind cut that he could think of about the characters in this story whom he liked least, and even some whom he didn't know at all. It is for this perceived spite that I won't be reading any more by this author unless, that is, he finds himself in the midst of another little horror such as this and writes about it.
If this review seems harsh it should be said that the author states in his forward that he chose to go forward with his book despite the fact that wiser heads counseled him to refrain from writing his account until time more time had passed. Additionally, the author was brave to print some of the negative feedback he got from relatives and participants in the disaster and my hat goes off to him for that. Still, ya gotta wonder just what it was that motivated him to be point fingers in so many directions and if it was survivor guilt if it wouldn't have been better for all involved it he'd waited a while before writing this book.
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Summary: Looking For Adventure? Then This A Must Read
Review: This book is vivid and insightful. Jon Krakauer makes it seem as if you're right there in the mountain with him. It's filled with action for all you adventure seekers out there. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes a good action-thriller book that will keep you guessing what will happen next.
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Summary: A Real "Breath-taker"
Review: If you are slightly interested in mountain climbing, or want to learn about Mount Everest, this book will be your best friend. Into Thin Air definitely lives up to its name, as a personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster. Some parts of this book are filled with enough suspense to keep you up for days.
The book takes you day by day through the big trek up this "beast of a mountain" with Jon Krakauer, the author. Krakaeur was sent on this expedition by Outside Magazine. I feel that this book does a great job describing the personal struggles that go on as you climb Mount Everest. Krakauer and the rest of his crew must fight minute by minute and sacrifice everything they have to make their mission successful. As the story progresses, the challenges get even tougher, and the suspense builds. What you are left with is a graphic description of a tragic story, all in vivid color. Jon Krakauer's writing makes it seem like you are right there behind him with your oxygen mask on and an ice pick in your hand.
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Summary: good book
Review: This is a good book that can show individuals the importance of leadership and direction. However, without reading the response by Bookreev, you will never get the whole story...
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Summary: Oh my lordy lord
Review: This was one of the most intresting books that i have ever read. It was wonderful. It is a book of adventure, suspense and... well, lets just keep it at that!!!!! I hope you enjoy it!!!!!!
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Summary: Sobering Account of 1996 Mount Everest Climbing Disaster
Review: This is certainly a spellbinding personal account by Jon Krakauer of his participation in the ill-fated commercial expedition led by the experienced Himalayan climber Rob Hall to the top of Mount Everest. Krakauer draws upon his extensive experience in climbing as well as his skills as a fine writer to recount this mesmerizing saga. Admittedly Krakauer found writing this book most difficult, yet he succeeds brilliantly in describing the participants and the trek up Mount Everest without wallowing in self pity. Anyone interested in a spellbinding tale of adventure will undoubtedly wish to read Krakauer's book.
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Summary: One of The Best
Review: Wow, this book will be the standard for action adventure reporting for maybe the next 20 years. If the author gets royalties from each book that has on its dust jacket "just like Into Thin Air", he will make a good living just from that. This book is the "Black Hawk Down" of action adventure non-fiction. The author does that well of a job in telling this story. The story is the detailed account of a 1996 expedition to Everest in which a storm blew in and a number of people were lost. This book is told by one of the participants on the mountain that all most died. It is by far the best book of the class and one that everyone that has read it has loved it. The author has just done the most complete, detailed, tension filled true-life action adventure book there has been. I can not say enough good things about this book nor do I have the skill to truly convey to you how excellent this book is. Do yourself two favors - first buy the book, next lock yourself in a room and clear your calendar because you will not want to put the book down.
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Summary: Tragic Adventure Story
Review: I remember several years when Newsweek ran an excerpt from Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, not too long after that deadly season on Mt. Everest. It sounded like an interesting story. I forgot about it until I was high up in the Cascades of Central Oregon on a vacation and wanted something to read. I picked this book up (sticking with the mountain theme of course!) and found it to be one that was difficult to put down. First, it's a book that you'll enjoy even if you're not a climber. There's not anything overly technical in the book. It's more of a humans vs. the elements story. Into Thin Air is written with great hindsight and had to have been painful and yet cathartic for the author to write, as he was part of the expedition. He paints a very clear picture from a unique perspective of what it is like to climb Everest and what type of person takes on the challenge. You get a look at the climbers coming together and starting the ascent from base camp. You get to see who these people are and then how they react in a life and death struggle. The book shows how small mistakes, a creeping sense of invincibility and even a little greed all came together to form a major disaster. Into Thin Air is also triumphant in the stories of those who barely survived, but still got down the mountain, which as Krakauer says, is the hardest part of a summit run. This is definitely a book to have if you enjoy true stories of outdoor adventure, and you can't beat the price!
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: I've done rock climbing in gyms and some outside stuff. Have seen the adds for mountain expiditions in the back of climbing magazines in the late 90's and have always wondered what that would be like. Now I know... 8^) I couldn't put this book down, read it in two nights. Krakauer talks about what each day is like and what they experience. Each ascent to climatize and then the final push for the summit. The symptoms of altitude sickness and the perils of the death zone. If you have any interest in climbing, this is a must read!
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Summary: Extraoirdinary Folks questing for beyond rationally possible
Review: WE all know the principal players, WE all know why who went where and for what reasons, and Everest, inexorably drawing them upwards through the much feared Khumba ice falls. At least we, the reader has an expectation that the writer is along to record his observations, polish his prose to achieve the story he was sent to obtain....Being, Jon Krakauer, I expected him to be at the forefront of all things, as for him it was so transparent that this gig provided the means to DO IT, to CLIMB EVEREST and that he would be so drawn into the team, his friends. His friends were dying out there and Jon is examining with surgical precsion what could HE have done differently. I find myself so drawn to these people.Jon makes you care about each and every one of the team members.They had big dreams, some still do. I am grateful to have gotten to meet them, if only, through this book;...Beck Weathers - read his book, Sandy Hill Pittman - can't hardly find anything written nicely about her. [Heck], she had a job to do too! The way so much of this was portrayed in the media - it was as if it was episodes of ... THE REAL WORLD done in the death zone. I would climb a mountain and toss down a cold one with any of these folks at any time. They were not merely rich dilitanttes on holiday...They had the "right stuff" when it counted. Into Thin Air cuts through all the negativity>
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