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12-10-2007, 08:03 PM
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Any books/movies like "Into the wild"
By that I mean, any books that tell a story about someone who just leaves everything behind and pursues whatever the hell is that they want to do(The Alchemist http://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Plus...7342192&sr=8-1 is also like that).
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12-10-2007, 08:04 PM
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Forrest f*cking Gump
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12-10-2007, 08:06 PM
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Grizzly Man is kinda similar, but a documentary. Good film though.
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12-10-2007, 08:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by res7426
Grizzly Man is kinda similar, but a documentary. Good film though.
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ya i saw that....the guy was a fuking nut, i laughed my ass off when the foxes stole his hat and took it into the burrow
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12-10-2007, 08:13 PM
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The Climb by Anatoly Buvreev. It's about climbing Mt Everest. It really captures the dangers of climbing Everest. Outstanding adventure and all true.
Another is Bravo Two Zero. About a Brithish SAS squad that gets spotted way behind enemy lines in Iraq during the Gulf War. Incredible adventure tale.
http://www.amazon.com/Bravo-Two-Zero...7342791&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.com/Climb-Anatoli-...7342621&sr=8-2
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12-10-2007, 08:16 PM
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The Endurance
bout dudes who go explore the arctic, good book
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12-11-2007, 12:30 AM
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One Mans Wilderness - Sam Keith. Its awesome!
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12-11-2007, 12:32 AM
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the guy they based into the wild on was a ****ing retard. a six year old eskimo could have got home from where he died. just another ******* who thought he knew everything.
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12-11-2007, 09:59 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Baba_ghanoush
ya i saw that....the guy was a fuking nut, i laughed my ass off when the foxes stole his hat and took it into the burrow
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That was the funniest thing in the world.. Just watched it last night
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12-11-2007, 10:05 AM
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12-18-2007, 11:26 PM
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Quote:
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One Mans Wilderness - Sam Keith. Its awesome!
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Should definitely watch Alone in the Wilderness, which is the documentary about the same guy. The guy is truly alpha, was still living in the wilderness alone in his 80's still doing work most misc. members would fail at.
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12-18-2007, 11:28 PM
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The Hatchet - Jack London
Kind of grade school level but a great book none the less.
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12-18-2007, 11:32 PM
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Quote:
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The Hatchet - Jack London
Kind of grade school level but a great book none the less.
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Think thats by Gary Paulson.
I actually went to school with Shackeltons nieces or great-nieces/grandchildren. They we're twins.
On The Road by Jack Kerouac is kinda what your looking for. Traveling the country, experiencing life, meeting crazy people.
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12-18-2007, 11:33 PM
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Quote:
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The Hatchet - Jack London
Kind of grade school level but a great book none the less.
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Is that the one where the kid ditches home and lives in the wilderness??
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12-18-2007, 11:39 PM
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Quote:
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Is that the one where the kid ditches home and lives in the wilderness??
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No, a plane he is one crashes and he survives by himself in the wilderness.
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12-18-2007, 11:39 PM
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No, a plane he is one crashes and he survives by himself in the wilderness.
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Oh snap. i remeber that one. that was a damn good book.
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12-18-2007, 11:48 PM
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x2
phenomenal...but dated so it's not for everyone
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02-08-2008, 04:47 AM
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Quote:
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Is that the one where the kid ditches home and lives in the wilderness??
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think ur talkinga bout Crabbe... lol good book
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02-08-2008, 06:28 AM
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Fight Club... sort of.
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02-08-2008, 07:24 AM
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not exactly like into the wild/alchemist...but a good read:
fifth mountain by paulo coelho
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02-08-2008, 07:27 AM
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http://www.hoo-ah.net/
There's a blog of a dude that left everything behind one day and joined the army.
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02-08-2008, 07:42 AM
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain
The Crossing-Cormac McCarthy
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05-27-2008, 01:00 PM
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sorry for the old bump but im wondering the same thing, anything else worth looking at?
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05-27-2008, 01:06 PM
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Love this film! Will read the book after I've finished College.
In terms of books similar, i really recommend 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac. Very good read.
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05-27-2008, 01:22 PM
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'Grizzly Man' -> reps for streams or torrents
There have been a lot of road movies about leaving everything behind, but not based on real events like 'into the wild' that's what makes that movie/book so powerful the fact that is real
I'm interested in survivalists and stuff like that I might suggest you check a BBC reality show (wait!) where they had 30 people living in an isolated island off the coast of england
also castaway with forrest gump ain't bad
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05-27-2008, 01:37 PM
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05-27-2008, 01:59 PM
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i havent seen the movie, but i will soon. but i remember hearing in philosophy that the movie is based on the ideas from a book called walden. also look into theraux (spelling?) i believe he is either the author or a big influence of walden. im sorry im at work so i cant check back on my notes.
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02-17-2009, 06:24 AM
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One of my favorite books growing up, I think I re-read that one like 5 times.
Bump for more good books like this.
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02-17-2009, 06:47 AM
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You should read he true story about Patrick Leigh Fermor. He decided at just 18, to walk the length of Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Leigh Fermor set off on 8 December 1933, when Hitler had recently come to power in Germany, with a few clothes, the Oxford Book of English Verse and a volume of Horace's Odes. He slept in barns and shepherds' huts, but also in the country houses of Central Europe with the landed gentry and aristocracy. Along the journey he listened to the many stories and dialects he came across. Two of his subsequent travel books, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, detail this journey and, as they were written decades later, benefit from his scholarly learning, giving a wealth of historical, geographical, linguistic and anthropological information as the narrative proceeds.
When WW2 broke out:
He joined the Irish Guards, but due to his knowledge of Greek he was commissioned in the General List and became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete. During the German occupation he returned to Crete three times, once by parachute. He was one of a small number of Special Operations Executive officers posted to organise the island's resistance to German occupation. Disguised as a shepherd, he lived for over two years in the mountains and led the party that captured and evacuated the German Commander, General Heinrich Kreipe, in 1944.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leigh_Fermor
Reading his books now.
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