Saturday, January 26, 2008

Journal of the Dead



A true story.

OK, this book is WAY too interesting for me not to write about it...2 friends-David and Raffi-from Boston decide to take a road trip (inspired by Kerouac). They stop in New Mexico for a night out under the stars. They take a few beers, a water or two and start their hike into the night.
The next morning, theyre lost. No water, no beer. No food. At the end of the short trip that lasted only a few days, one of the friends is dead. Murdered.
Since they had gotten lost with no food or water, they started to panic. David can no longer so on, so he asked his friend Raffi to take his life. Raffi then killed his best friend out of an act of compassion. Or was it murder?
This book is interesting to me because they were never more than a mile or two out. Something like this could have easily been prevented, but these guys lost it so fast. And I like how pyschological this book was. It was riveting.

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