# Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - July 2025 edition

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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** comic-books-manga, books-writing-myths
**Created:** [June 30, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-july-2025-edition/1020278 "2025-06-30T00:38:55Z")
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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: [July 13, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-july-2025-edition/1020278/62 "2025-07-13T01:01:09Z")

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Jon Krakauer’s _Into Thin Air_ and _Into the Wild_ are both very good, as is _Under the Banner of Heaven_, about Mormon fundamentalism and a notorious Utah double homicide.

Three interesting earlier threads about _Into the Wild_: (1) [Biggest nincompoop: Timothy Treadwell, Chris McCandless, or Vitaly Nikolayenko?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-nincompoop-timothy-treadwell-chris-mccandless-or-vitaly-nikolayenko/538059) (2) [Your thoughts on INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thoughts-on-into-the-wild-by-jon-krakauer/194728)  
(3) [I just saw 'Into the Wild' and all I gotta say is...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-into-the-wild-and-all-i-gotta-say-is/430539)

I was underwhelmed by Thomas Perry’s _The Old Man_ when I read it two years ago, I have to admit.

I read _The Only Plane in the Sky_ a few months ago and agree, it’s quite powerful. The title comes from a realization by the command pilot of Air Force One late on 9/11 - as far as he knew, they really _were_ the only plane in the sky.

Now reading _The Two Popes: Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World_ by Anthony McCarten. I’d enjoyed the movie with Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, which was lightly fictionalized; this is nonfiction, and pretty good so far, although McCarten’s prose is a bit breathless sometimes. I knew very little of the future Pope Francis’s early life, and am learning a lot.

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