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Abbey Road on the (Ohio) River will be 5 days this year, May 24 - 28. If you ever liked The Beatles' music, this is the place to be.

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I attended a Beatles meetup here in Nashville. It was fun spending time with life long Beatle fans.

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Any more meetups on your schedule, Jim?


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Thanks, Michelle, for asking. I will attend a fiction meetup group in Nashville on September 20 and read my review of John Krakauer's Into The Wild. The movie Into The Wild will open in theaters nationwide on September 21.

INTO THE WILD - JON KRAKAUER
This is the story of Chris McCandless, a young man from an affluent family who graduated with honors from Emory University in Atlanta. In April, 1992, Chris set off into the Alaska wilderness with a rifle and meager supplies to "live off the land." He headed north of Denali National Park. He was idealistic and strongly influenced by the writings of Tolstoy. Four months later, he was found dead by a party of moose hunters in an abandoned Fairbanks city bus. He had starved to death.

Jon Krakauer traces Chris' odyssey across the west. Chris' parents had assumed their son would go to law school with a major in history. Instead, he donated his college fund to charity and left with no word. He changed his name to Alex Supertramp, abandoned his car and took to hitchhiking. He ate rice. He traipsed through Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington. He was liked by the people he met. He worked for a man named Wayne Westerberg in South Dakota. He befriended an 80-year-old veteran.

Chris kept a journal in which he wrote about himself in the third person. He saw himself as a modern Thoreau. He camped in the Grand Canyon. He worked in a restaurant in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, his parents were worried sick.

Krakauer identifies with Chris and portrays him as different from others who wander off in the wilderness. Chris' story and Krakauer's merge. Krakauer grew up in Oregon and learned mountain climbing from his father. He spent time in Alaska as a young man and climbed a peak known as Devils Thumb. He writes about it in detail, relating his mistakes and the unforgiving nature of mountains, ice and freezing temperatures. He questions why he survived Alaska while Chris perished.

It got out of hand with Chris. His disregard for his parents and contempt for the rules of society are hard to defend. His asceticism and high-mindedness are extreme. He became an aimless drifter, a selfish nonconformist.

We are shown the source of Chris' resentment toward his father. His father had a second family by a first marriage. Krakauer exposes the gap between himself and his own father.

As Chris' wanderlust grew, he thought more and more of Alaska. He hitched a ride from Dawson Creek in Canada along the Alaska Highway to Fairbanks. He bought a rifle and hitched on the George Parks Highway toward the wilderness. He wanted to escape all civilization. He saw Mt. McKinley in the distance. He found the bus and made it his home. For awhile, he was able to live off birds, squirrels and other small game. Krakauer's theory that Chris was poisoned by wild potato seeds proved untrue. Krakauer did not want to believe Chris had a death wish as critics have proposed. Still, Chris was not that deep into the bush and might have saved himself had he the will to do so.

"Into the Wild" will be a movie in 2007 starring Emile Hirsch and Vince Vaughn. Jon Krakauer went on to climb Mt. Everest, an expedition during which several of his party perished. The disaster produced another bestseller, "Into Thin Air."


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Nice job, Jim. Excellent job in fact.
Thanks for posting! This site has been empty for a while and I just came over to get it going with the forum. I like to read your posts as well.


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