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Not bad timing for my first book in a while. I finished reading Krakauer's Into the Wild last night on the way home. To have read the book only on my trips into and out of the city for work - not bad timing at all.I averaged about 25+ pages per hour or so (because I sometimes fell asleep or blogged or IM'd a buddy.

Book reaction: Granted, because this book starts out with the end and you know the anti-hero guy dies - hence the fact-gathering and the postulations of events throughout - in much of the book, I was wondering what the reasons were behind the author's need to pen the story. By the last two chapters, I discovered it and it kinda pissed me off: Krakauer was trying to equate himself with the anti-hero of the book and draw similarities between the anti-hero and other eccentrics who'd died in the wilderness. Blech. It was an interesting read. I learned some history (the story was in essence a biography of a dead GenXer who died on a quest "to find himself" and the last frontier in the early 90s). I learned some new things about Alaska and its folk (both imported and indigenous) and some things about the West and southwest of America. Glad I read it, but it made me at times too introspective. Time for something more specifically introspective: The Presence Process - a self-awareness book by Michael Brown. Oooooo...
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