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Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I couldn't put it down!!
Review: I never really had much interest in Mount Everset until I checked this book out of our local library.I was spellbound & am now interested in all things "Everest"..I felt as if I was really there with the climbers (but glad I wasn't really)! I highly recommend this book!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A book you can't put down.
Review: This is the only time in a lifetime of book-reading that I finished the book, turned around and immediately read it again.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing, Brilliant, and exteremely frightening.
Review: Krakouer takes you to the top of the world, and displays the horrors of it. His novel uncovers the peril of life at 29,000 feet. He not only touches on the dangers of mountain climbing, but the sheer will, and greed of the men climbing Everest. It amazed me to see how they actually leave men to die in order to reach thier goal. It makes one of the most challenging obstacle on earth appear as a fool's paradise, and will absolutely spellbind you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Sharing every gasp
Review: I am an armchair slob. In the main I hate most physical exertion but love reading, and this is one of the best books I have ever read. I was with Jon every oxygen-depleted breath he took. Thoroughly recomend. Suddenly I've become an Everest freak - bookmarked every site imaginable, going to the video shop to get the vid etc. But I will never, ever ever climb anything more than the stairs to bed. I live at sea level and am satying there ....in fact this is a great book for the beach!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Enthralling
Review: I do not climb mountains but I couldn't put this book down as I pondered how the human spirit can be so determined, and how human failures can ovecome even the most sensible people.

I later read 'The Climb' which a longer more detailed account of the Everest diaster. While I am not the kind of person who watches Rescue-911 for the sheer morbitity of it, I was intreged by what this story has to say about commerical explotation, captialism at all costs, and how, when stripped of everything we are left only with own determination and good judgement.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A gripping tale of life at the extreme
Review: Inspiring. That one word says everything about this book. This is a story about life, friendship, honor, courage, and adventure. I couldn't get enough of this book - I just could not put it down.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A "Can't Put It Down" Book About the Thrill-Seeking Urge
Review: Great book! I finished it last night by candlelight after a summer thunderstorm knocked out the power, and then I spent a restless night imagining hurricane-force winds pounding my tent at Camp 4. The illustrations are worth the additional price of the book. I felt that some of the author's finger-pointing was unjustified (particularly in light of the author's own conduct), and the continuing debate with Boukreev in the postscript was petty. I was also wholly unconvinced by the author's attempt to distinguish mountaineering (and specifically Everest) from bungee jumping, sky diving and motorcycle racing. The urge for selfish thrill-seeking cuts across sports, as well as across nationalities and even sex, as demonstrated by the various parties on Everest in the spring of 1996.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You can't finish this book unmoved and untouched.
Review: This was a very well writen book about the 1996 Everest disaster.The author wrote what he thought should be learned about what happend over the expiditions time.I don't read much books but I read this one and I would read it again.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Adventure Story Ever Told
Review: I felt that this book was one of the best adventure stories ever told. It kept me on the edge of my seat and made me feel like I was experiencing it first hand. The way the author described it gave me chills up my spine. This book was so good that I have read it twice and have recomended it to many of my friends.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Why do so many people like this book?
Review: We all know this type of book. It looks interesting, people are raving, so you pick it up and begin reading. Starts off slow, you think "ah, it's just getting started." 100 pages into it, and it's still getting started. 200 pages in, and you consider dumping it. But you keep reading anyway, people love this book, it'll get better, right? At some point, you notice there's only a few pages left and then you realize with that slightly sinking feeling that you've wasted your time on a book that goes nowhere.

What people see in this book, I don't know. A story as good as this deserves a better storyteller.


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