Memoir – Failures in Polymathy

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster – Jon Krakauer

I don’t think I cared much for mountaineering before reading this.

People seem to think that fame and celebrity are ‘cheat codes’ to life. Those people lack imagination.

I picked up some nostalgia bait and read it.

A whole lot of bravado from one of America’s founders.

Here is a hot take: after reading this I feel like I understood Anthony Bourdain’s suicide.

Apparently this is a ‘Sports Book’. I am somehow not convinced.

A fascinating cross between a self-help book and a memoir, although the former falls a little short.

Some people really have earned the status of hero when we consider history.

There are a lot of books I can throw into the ‘read for the wrong reason’ category. This is one

Dispatches from the Edge is touching and horrifying, and reminds us how us how the fragility of live continues to effect us.