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Old 06-27-2008, 02:17 AM   #21
Jeff Lebowski
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Originally Posted by MikeWaters View Post
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.
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