Into Thin Air is great!
AGREED. It was a really fun book to read. Is "fun" the wrong word? It must be given how incredibly sad the book is at times. Still, the majority of it had me on the edge of my seat in a great way.
Thanks eataudio for spotting and sharing this. I always felt Krakauer was onto something with his hunch. It's clear from the book that he identified closely with McCandless; the book describes a similarly reckless adventure climbing an Alaskan mountain when he was a dumb kid. I wasn't impressed by Sean Penn's movie version of the story, but Eddie Vedder's soundtrack was great. And if you liked Into Thin Air, you must check out Eiger Dreams. Twelve stories of spectacular mountaineering adventures and mishaps. I admire the bravery and even hubris of people like McCandless, and I'm content to get my thrills reading about their exploits from the comfort of my chair.
I didn't enjoy the film version either, but the book was fantastic. I don't recall Eddie Vedder's soundtrack in a positive or negative way, but I have always liked his song, The Long Road that he recorded with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for the movie Dead Man Walking. -Good movie, good song, good stuff.