Once you start, you absolutely can't put this book down!

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	• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer Anchor, 1999 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 1492 reviews view larger image
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Once you start, you absolutely can't put this book down!

While in college back in May, 2000, my paleontology professor told our class about this book. I remember him telling us about how he was unable to put the book down once he started reading it, about how those climbers froze to death, and about how one managed to rise from the dead and get off the mountain alive. Back then, I had never read a book of this length, ever, unless I was forced to by a teacher to write a report or study for a test. Honestly, I always felt reading was a waste of time, especially anything over 10-20 pages; this book is over 300. But for some strange reason this book was always in the back of my mind because I never forgot about the professor's account of how good it was to read.

Today is December 18, 2007, over 7 years since my professor mentioned the book to me. And for another reason I can't understand, last week I decided to purchase the book and read it, 7 years later. Once I got this book, I was so addicted to reading it I forgot who I was, where I was, or what I was doing. The next day I read the book in the morning on the train, skipped lunch at work and kept reading, and kept on reading later that day on the train ride home from work. The book was stuck to my hands like a magnet!

It's written very well and organized even better. From the first few pages you can't wait to read about what happens next. The author does a great job in describing the details of the climb (upward ascent), which is a little more than half way in to the book, and the remaining pages describe the horrific events that changed the lives of so many people that day. To say I was moved by this book would be an understatement.

On a bizarre side note, one night when I was about 75% in to the book, I remember it was late, probably 2:30AM, and I had been reading for almost 3 hours straight. The weather outside was very cold and extremely windy with gale force winds up to 60mph, not unlike the conditions on Everest as Jon describes in the book. Since it was late I decided to go to sleep, but this turned out to be almost impossible. My mind was so in to this book that the weather kept telling my mind that I was on the mountain experiencing the chilling conditions of that horrible night on Everest in 1996! I could not convince my mind otherwise! I was flat out crapping in my pants because I was so moved by the book. The brain can play some serious tricks on us, and needless to say, I got about 1-2 hours of sleep that night. The wind did not let up until 9AM the next morning. A moving experience, to say the least....

Now I am searching for books to read like a mad man, go figure...

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A lifetime lesson

This great book, beautifully written by Krakauer, deals with the deadly experience of a group of climbers (leaded by experienced mountaineers) on their journey to Mt. Everest.
Values as humility, respect, perseverence (and also flaws as greed and selfishness) are neatly described.
If interested in drive a team towards an objective, it teaches on how to achieve it by showing what hasn't to be done: Krakauer's mates, they learn it the hard way.
A book you won't stop reading until finished.

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Powerful and Moving

This book is so moving. I read it really fast once and then immediately started over slowly, paying attention to details. The view of the writer and then the sharing in the final pages was so unbelievably honest and forthcoming. Thanks!

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into thin air

The book was received in great condition, timely and we were happy with our purchase.
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Great Book

Highly recommended!
I don't know why anybody would ever subject themselves to these types of extremes, but to read about them is fascinating.
Jon very subtlety makes himself to be the best climber of the mountain (which me very well may have been), and his honesty throughout and following the account comes through.
Highly recommend this book.

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