# Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - August 2022 edition

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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** books-writing-myths
**Created:** [July 31, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-august-2022-edition/968873 "2022-07-31T17:26:21Z")
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### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-august-2022-edition/968873/15 "2022-08-01T20:23:00Z")

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> [@Catamount](#):
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> _Into the Wild_, Jon Krakauer - Again, I’m about a hundred pages into it and I really want to smack the McCandless kid upside the head. Who goes into the Alaskan wilderness with just a 10-pound bag of rice to live on? Idiots, that’s who.

> [@DZedNConfused](#):
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> So much about McCandless makes me want to smack him. For one thing, mate, learn how to read a map.

A previous thread that may be of interest: [Into The Wild](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/into-the-wild/421460)

> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#):
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> I started reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

Ah! I liked that a lot, although I found the ending… implausible, for reasons I’ll be glad to explain when you’re done.

Over the weekend I zipped through _On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century_ by Timothy Snyder, a short but engaging book about how we can all, forewarned and forearmed, help preserve democracy.

Now I’ve begun _Putting the Rabbit in the Hat_, the actor Brian Cox’s autobiography. He’s good in everything I’ve ever seen him appear in, most recently _Succession_. In the early pages of the book he’s telling me more about his impoverished Dundee childhood than, truth be told, I really want to know, but for now I’m just enjoying his Scottish accent and looking forward to learning more about his career.

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