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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
The narrator for the audiobook was incredible. I found this very harrowing. I think the straightforwardness of the writing intensified the disturbed feeling I got listening to the book. Hypoxia in a disaster like this sounds like it’s akin to descension into madness.
A book that has been on my list for a long time, particularly because Into the Wild was very formative for me when I read it back in high school. I also generally enjoy the genre of "journalistic investigation into person in peril in the mountains" (Ty Gagne does this particularly well). However, reading this over 20 years on, I did think that a lot of the criticism Krakauer received after writing Into Thin Air was warranted. He attempted to present this as a factual, journalistic account into something that he was clearly too close to, and too traumatized by. Also, the fact that he switched between first and last names to indicate characters drove me insane.
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Hard to put into words the feelings this book leaves me with. I’m sad for the lives lost, the impact this had on those involved and those who experienced it from afar, and the hurt the necessary telling of this story caused. With that being said, I’m in awe of Krakauer’s ability to illustrate a tragedy he lived through in such a beautifully tragic light mere months after its occurrence.
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This book was exceedingly difficult for me to read, I recently lost a friend of mine to similar circumstances as the ones described in the book. The author, being one of the few survivors of the disaster, was able to give an extremely detailed account of his horrifying experience on the mountain, Jon Krakauer's writing is fantastic and it makes you visualize the climbers' increasingly worsening situation easily. Rather than using the anglicized name, I'm glad some references to Everest were made using its original designation, Sagarmatha. I find it incredibly disheartening to hear about the rich white folks who perceive themselves to such an extent that they are somehow above the tallest mountain in the world. Climbing Everest currently is a rich man's game, played at the cost of the poor they hire to carry their luggage for them. It has been on my bucket list to visit Everest's Base Camp someday ever since I was a child, hopefully, it can still happen. A solid read that was truly a pleasure.
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