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Jeff Lebowski 06-27-2008 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 235434)
yet another accusation from someone who was acquainted with the subject of Krakauer's book, who says Krakauer gets it all wrong, for Krakauer's own purposes.



If this is true, I think it is because K. unconsciously reinvents people into versions of himself or his imagination. He goes to the place he thinks he should go, not to the place where the evidence leads.

http://www.amazon.com/review/product...rBy=addOneStar

I did find it odd in the book how Krakauer kept juxtaposing stories from his own life in the middle of the narrative.

MikeWaters 06-28-2008 01:18 AM

interesting that Guy Waterman, the father of John Mallon Waterman who perished attempting to climb Mt. Denali as recounted by Krakauer in his book, committed suicide by climbing a mountain in 2000 and freezing to death.

http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Garden-.../dp/1593760485

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ad...y.html#story_2

Another son of Guy (John's brother) also committed suicide per Amazon reviewer.

MikeWaters 09-16-2013 09:49 PM

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...less-died.html

One notes how Krakauer's glosses over his own mistake(s).


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