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Summary: Excellent reading! A lot of names to keep up with, though.
Review: I got this book because I am now into exploration and true stories... This is an excellent piece of reading. Krakauer is real good at describing situations, people, environments and moods. The only thing is that it gets to a point where a lot of names are used in the book and it is kind of hard to keep up with them... Other than that, it should be a wonderful reading. I could not put it down!
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Summary: good narrative
Review: An account of the 1996 Everest tragedy that killed five people when an unexpected storm blew in. It's well written, with enough details to give one a sense of what's involved in climbing Mount Everest yet not so much to bog down the reading.
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Summary: gripping...detailed and informative
Review: Krakauer does a very good job of detailing the events as they unfolded on the mountain and the events tht happened and things tht could have been done to avoid such a disaster. The technical details that go on with a climb is pretty amazing and Krakauer does a good deal of detailing those for newbies like me and it gives a whole new prespective on the risks associated with climbing... A must read for anyone interested in climbing.
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Summary: totally cool
Review: trek up everest. great job describing scenery and weather. Book of the year at College of the Redwoods in Eureka. Many people dies on climb. Many people should not have been there in the firtst place. Very intense riveting book a real page turner. If you like hiking get this book. you may not want to climb everest though but its a great book.
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Summary: Despite Its short falls this is a really good book
Review: Into Thin Air is a well-written book. Krakauer has an effective way of painting a stunning picture of Everest while at the same time representing how dangerous the expedition is. He also shows a lot of emotion in his writing when talking about his own experiences and how scared he was at certain times. This makes the book more enduring to people and more readable. Also, I feel Krakauer is trying to dissuade weekend climbers from paying 60,0000 dollars to get up Everest. He does this by going to pain staking detail about the dangerous while giving life to his pain and anguish, physical and emotional. This being said, I think that sometimes his emotions get the best of him and cloud his objective perspective when it comes to certain aspects of the expedition. He writes about Scott Fischers as if he were a member of it when in reality he did not have that much contact with them and his writing about Boukreev is a little skewed. Overall this book hits the mark and is heartfelt explanation of the tragedy on Everest.
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Summary: Into Thin Air 2: The True Story of the Mount Everest...
Review: Mr. Krakauer should put the above title out next.It's a tad gut wrenching to read how Mr. K. goes to such lengths to shine a better light on himself. And yet, he villifies Anatoli Boukreev who was more heroic on the mountain than anyone. While Krakauer was curled up in his tent, Boukreev was pulling people from their graves. Oh well, IT all evens out eventually.
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Summary: Krakauer's Adventure Classic.
Review: It's been nearly five years since I've read "Into Thin Air," but Krakauer's book is the kind that remains with you long after you've closed it. This book is probably one the author himself wishes he had never had to write. I'm sure he wished that he could have written a different one, one that is to say, where there are no deaths, one where everyone successfully completes their ascents to Everest's peak. However as we all know things didn't go that way. Instead, bad luck and death hounded them and Krakauer, one of the lucky few to survive managed to tell us his side of the story. It's elegantly written, cleanly reported and above all, haunting.
I usually don't read books on the outdoors, but this one was clearly worth it. I think it will long remain an adventure classic.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: I could not put this book down. From sheer terror to sadness this book brings it all out. Brillantly written and told first hand by Jon K. who was there and saw this tragedy with his own eyes. A must read for everyone.
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Summary: gripping from start to finish!
Review: This is Jon Krakauer's best work. It covers the tale of a band of men, traversing up one of the world's most difficult mountains to climb. I started reading this book at about 12:00 PM at night, and it was so gripping and engaging that I could not put it down to sleep, and I read through the night, finishing the book. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure and such. If you liked this book, you should also check out the Dirk Pitt series of adventure books by Clive Cussler, which is of the same caliber.
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Summary: Makes you respect the mother nature
Review: As an ardent fan of hiking, this book both scared me and also made me more determined to climb the mountains. The author never stays away from the main line of the book and his details were precise. Worth reading. His narrative is the best in explaining the incidents happened during climbing and the emotions he went through when he started losing his friends were tearful. This book definetly makes you respect the mother nature and sows the seed of wanting to climb mount everest atleast once.
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