Books You've Read in 2020

[dgaddis]

This could be an interesting thread to keep going this year, and I could always use some recommendations. I'll start:

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. The true story of Chris McCandless, a bright idealistic young man who went into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land, where he ultimately starved to death after making a few small mistakes. A cautionary tale of letting your ideals blind you from really understanding your own strengths and weaknesses and the harshness of reality. I, many of us I assume, can relate to Chris in some ways though ::

He had a need to test himself in ways, as he was fond of saying, “that mattered.” He possessed grand - some would say grandiose - spiritual ambitions. According to the moral absolutism that characterized McCandless’s beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn’t a challenge at all.

Annoyingly - the book mentions many photographs Chris took, but none are included in the book.