Right now i'm reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, recently read The Stranger by Albert Camus. Also im planning on reading the full Song of Fire and Ice series(Game of Thrones is it's tv show adaptation of the books)
Right now i'm reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakaue...
Im actually reading it as part of my ib English course :thumbup:Me too!
Right now i'm reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer...
Me too!
The Player of Games - Ian M. Banks
A great author, he writes books like no one else I have found (He has some unique concepts).
I read "Into the Wild" a year or two ago and really enjoyed it. The main character's appreciation of transcendentalist philosophy and longing for a sort of Thoreauvian solitude is rather intriguing, given the contemporary nature of the book's events (early 90's, I think). Krakauer is certainly one of the best non-fiction authors I've read. He was a journalist if memory serves me, and has written a few other books, including "Into the Wild", all of which are worth reading. :thumbup:
...but I'm absolutely incapable of suspending disbelief and enjoying soft sci-fi.
To be honest, I'm finding the book fairly hard to read. Not so much the style of writing or the print or the like, but the content is not engaging me as it normally would. I think I'm at odds with "Alex" and his seeming lack of direction, not to mention the unrealistic ideals which he holds himself to, particularly in light of Krakauer's confession that not even Thoreau himself lived up to the regard that Alex holds him in. To me, it seems like he threw his life away for very little good reason.
But then, that's just me.
Right now i'm reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer,