NEWS: Books Will Save Your Life. Literally.

Very awesome, I just recomended Hachet to my ex-girl friend for books to include in a summer book reading program she is running this summer.

HACHET!

And... YOU CALLED GARY PAULSEN! Awesome. I loved those books as a kid.

HOORY FOR READIN!

Weren't they soccer players or some shit?

=)

I loved that book so much. I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid running around the woods. I made my mom read it and she bought me a hatchet after.

Way to completely miss the point & glom onto a non-essential detail of the story. Here's your Snide Merit Badge.....

I'd like to see him try to go without water for more than four days. I doubt he'll be very snide when he's drinking his own urine.

i love that i know so many random things that have nothing to do with my life from reading voraciously.

true fact: my brother in law is a police detective, when he first made detective and was complaining about the stench of a floater, i taught him that the trick to surviving heinous smells (like dead bodies) is to put vicks vapor rub under your nostrils. when he asked how the hell i knew that i said 'i read it in a detective novel'

I never read Hatchet, I'm not sure how many good lessons I could still use from the books I read as a kid, aside from the obvious "Don't read anything checked out of the library at Miskatonic University".

Oh, and I use the vap-o-rub trick too, we have a lot of kids with encopresis/enuresis at work, but I learned it from Silence of the Lambs.

They've been known to come in handy while waiting in line-turned-raging-mob for Xboxes as well.

Uruguayan rugby team!!!

Oh man, I wish! No, a real reporter called Gary Paulsen. I'm not quite on that level yet.

Well Ok sure, but there's only one road in Canada, and only half the population lives within walking distance of it. And if it's during the two months it isn't winter, you can't dogsled or snowmobile anywhere. So in most instances if you want to leave the house, it's charter plane or nuthin.

Who you calling gay?

I too read that book, back in the day. I'm a believer.

I dont know how much credit this kid deserves. He's only seen as a inspirational story because he was lost for so long. If he had done what he did to get lost and had been found an hour later he would have been punished. Appearantly he got home sick and decided to walk through the super-rugged and remote appalachian mountains to get home. If anything, he's an example of exactly what shouldnt be done in the wilderness.

I know; I was just being facetious, is all.

I loved this book as a kid. Thank god my fourth grade teacher had good taste in books. We read alot of Paulsen.

I'm a Wii-man myself. Maybe I should write Nintendo about putting out a version of "the Hatchet" for Wii. Survivalism in your own bedroom!

I don't even have a Wii...nor have ever played one, and I think this is a FANTASTIC idea.

THANK YOU for pointing this out. the kid thought he could walk away, find the road and hitchhike home. however well-read the kid is, it seems to me that he has no sense.

now, talk about the kid who got kidnapped at gunpoint and saved himself with a safety pin, and i'm impressed. he didn't have the choice to stay at the bus stop with the rest of the kids.

maybe that's the difference. in the book, the kid is out in the wilderness, but certainly not by choice. the kid who apparently survived due to the knowledge the author imparted? he simply walked away from safety.