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I read the book and what I remember was he had a good enough family but was a huge prick and constantly distanced himself from people and then went out to Alaska and died of hubris/unnaturally heavy rainfall (or snowmelt?). Is that about the gist of it, climate change killed him because he was such an rear end in a top hat
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Oscar Wild posted:It's really not about him. It could be anybody is the point. He is just an example of one type of hubris against nature, if that makes sense. It's the type of hubris that Krakauer was interested in with this book. I must have forgotten that part of the book but to be fair I read it like a decade ago and have a very stupid brain, so I'm glad I got the narrative right at least.
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Mar 28, 2017 16:56
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Toadvine posted:Nah you're thinking of grizzly man by Werner Herzog which is a much more humanizing perspective on a similarly dumb person with an easily avoidable death I get even angrier at the grizzly man guy, just because he apparently would bring his gf out to risk death by bear. He didn't deserve the extremely slow death he got though, sad poo poo Vincent Van Goatse posted:All the Alaskans who Krakauer talked too said the kid was a complete dumbass and he was all baffled and kinda indignant about it in the book, which was funny. Lmao, I forgot about this.
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Mar 28, 2017 17:19
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Adar posted:
Lol again at mccandless but this article is pretty damning against Krakauer, I didn't realize he'd made up so much poo poo in the book.
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Mar 28, 2017 18:21
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unpacked robinhood posted:Funny: the blonde kid who gets owned in The Beach (2000) This is twice you've mentioned it post a clip share the wealth
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Mar 28, 2017 22:59
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