This was my first attempt at listening to an audio book on the way to work, and I must say it was a good experience! I currently have two more checked out at the library :smiley: “Read” a book all while completely spacing out on your commute? Genius! I manage to get through about 1/2 a CD each way so I was done this one within two weeks (I sometimes listen to music on the way home).<br/><br/>I was drawn to this book via my reading of Jon Krakauer’s other big title, [i]<a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FInto-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster%2Fdp%2F0385492081&amp;tag=mikeylikesit-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325″ target=”_blank”>Into Thin Air</a>[/i], a personal account of a disaster of Everest. I enjoyed his writing, and love the outdoors so this was a no-brainer for me.<br/><br/>The story itself was a pretty good one; the main character, John McCandless, a guy about my age and from this area (Annandale, specifically), gets caught up in books he reads by Jack London and Leo Tolstoy, sort of loses touch with reality, and ends up dead in the Alaskan “wilderness” (read the book, you’ll see why I quoted this).<br/><br/>I didn’t find the story gripping as much as Krakauer’s other book as much as I found it unfortunate that a life could be wasted on such illusions of grandeur. Since much of the boy’s story was unknown, a lot of it was the recollection of others, and various other stories regarding people like McCandless. If nothing else, it was a good tool for learning about Alaska and some survival tips.<br/><br/>[b]8.2/10[/b] – didn’t live up to [i]Into Thin Air[/i]