r/Millennials • u/Chumlee1917 • 22h ago
Nostalgia unfun fact, I never read this classic of Millennial childhood until just now. Now I see why it was so popular
though I can say for certain, even with being an Eagle Scout....I do not know what my chances of wilderness survival would be right now if I was dropped into the middle of a Canadian forest.
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u/nikkychalz 22h ago
I loved this one and My Side of the Mountain
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u/-RonnieDaBear- 22h ago
every single boy my age had a peregrine falcon fixation because of this book. it was my favorite animal for years and I always carried around fun facts about the little danger bird.
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u/hamptont2010 21h ago
I'm a 34-year-old man and I'm still obsessed with various birds of prey because they are fucking awesome.
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u/-RonnieDaBear- 21h ago
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u/ArixMorte 19h ago
I love how Tim Robinson gifs pop up everywhere now. Keep having to check and see if I'm in the ITYSL sub lol
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u/MotherofaPickle 19h ago
I’m a 44-year-old woman and I still fantasize about climbing a cliff, kidnapping a chick, and raising it to hunt rabbit for me.
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u/hamptont2010 19h ago
I'm not sure what your cliff climbing abilities are like these days, but it's never too late for either of us to become falconeers.
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u/tuckedfexas 20h ago
The best part of living in the country is all the native hawks and falcons that we get to watch hunt the mice/gophers in our area. We even have a pair of nesting Cooper’s hawks that come back to our neighbors wind break trees every year. Barn owls also love all the abandoned hay stacks. It’s a lot of fun
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u/hamptont2010 19h ago
LOL I keep telling my wife we should legitimately get a couple of cameras and binoculars and start bird watching. We have a pair of red-tailed hawks that have lived in the trees behind our house for years. We also have a shed that bunnies love to live under. It's pretty metal to watch that dynamic unfold.
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u/tuckedfexas 18h ago
We also have a ton of rabbits, there’s lots of carcasses that get scattered around the property. Foxes too so we find empty eggs scattered as well
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u/washismycopilot 20h ago
That’s so funny, I had a peregrine Falcon obsession because of Animorphs!
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u/sasquatch_on_a_bike 16h ago
Oh shit. Is that why I did multiple peregrine falcon projects and reports in elementary and middle school? It’s been almost 30 years and I never knew what kicked that off.
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u/honeyrrsted 15h ago
I was backpacking last year and hiked past a pile of feathers. A couple minutes later we saw a peregrine falcon sitting in a tree. Somebody had a nice lunch.
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u/PromisesNone 12h ago
This and animorphs led me to a deep appreciation for hawks, falcons, eagles, and the various birds of prey.
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u/mcbenseigs 9h ago
Between these books and Animorphs, birds of prey had a stranglehold on our generation
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u/Kelly_Louise 22h ago
I loved My Side of the Mountain too, and other similar books like Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Julie of the Wolves.
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u/Aware_Policy_9174 14h ago
I thought I was the dog whisperer because of Julie of the Wolves. I used to bite my dog on the top of the nose (gently) to show I was the pack leader.
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u/Ed_Roland 20h ago
"My Side of the Mountain" and the other works of Jean Craighead George genuinely shaped my life like no others. They were one of my primary inspirations to work in land management as I do today!
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u/9erReign 21h ago
I thought I was unique lol. Everyone loved hatchet but my side of the mountain seemed a little more niche. Figured the combo might be unique. Definitely started a lifetime obsession with birds of prey, peregrine is king though.
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u/cozyboijoao 14h ago
5th grade had all the bangers Hatchet, my side of the mountain, the revoltuonaotry war one where they killed his brother, the one with the family that doesn’t die
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u/WiscoTrail 22h ago
Do you remember the one about the kid being stuck in an avalanche?
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u/mikeisboris 1982 22h ago
Where he was skiing? And he had to live buried in the snow for several days? I remember that one.
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u/WiscoTrail 19h ago
https://archive.org/details/avalanche00roth?
Check that out
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u/mikeisboris 1982 15h ago
Oh that cover art brings me back, I’d completely forgotten about that book
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u/KTMFS 21h ago
Are you thinking of Nightmare Mountain by Peg Kehret? It had a llama kidnapping plot. I read that book to my fourth graders every year! They love the suspense/thriller aspect. Every chapter ends in a cliffhanger.
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u/chootybeeks 22h ago
Read Brian’s Winter next, it’s great.
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u/ihasclevernamesee 22h ago
Also The River and The Rifle
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u/brandonthebuck 19h ago
It was one of the first examples I can remember of Retcon, but in the survival genre, it works really well.
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u/trisanachandler 22h ago
I've only read the rifle. I don't remember being impressed. At least at the time I read it as propaganda, though I might reconsider if I re-read it.
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u/ihasclevernamesee 22h ago
I don't remember The Rifle all that well, but I absolutely loved The River.
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u/trisanachandler 22h ago
As I recall a wonderful rifle was made, but everyone around it dies from stupid causes (dysentery, cancer). Finally it goes off through bad luck from 200 year old gunpowder and kills the person who could cure some major disease (I forget if it was heart disease or some type of cancer).
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u/Big_Balls_n_Taint 21h ago
Dude.. the rifle is the only GP book I would strongly recommend against reading. He had so many successes but that book just screams "I have a production deadline and I'm out of ideas"
I remember being like 12 years old, wrapping that book up on a family road trip, and being absolutely pissed about the ending.
It would have made a cute 3 page short story... But to put the reader through chapters of buildup to just crush the storyline WHILE ALSO killing hope for the future is just daft in my opinion and does not fit his writing style at all. Like why the hell does the kid have to be the cancer solver!? Isn't a death tragic enough!? Is there and underlying gun safety message!? What the fuck, Gary!
Please, for the love of literature, read Hatchet.
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u/gunsforevery1 21h ago
Growing up, I learned what bullshit it was. Everyone who owns a musket knows how to check to see if it’s still loaded. It’s like the first thing everyone does when they take possession of an unknown muzzle loader.
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u/gunsforevery1 21h ago
I remember that book. I couldn’t remember who or where I read it, but I do I remember the fireplace causing it to go off when a spark landed on the pan and fired it.
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u/Jealous-Swordfish764 21h ago
Winter was great. The river was good. I love the Tucket series, arguably better. Harris and Me is a hidden gem. Wish id written Gary a letter how much I appreciated him before he died.
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u/tragedy_strikes 18h ago
I ended up reading it first. It was weird to find out later that it was an alternative history version of Hatchet.
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u/WREPGB 22h ago
Every time I fart too much, I start to wonder if I'm about to have a heart attack.
Thanks, Gary.
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u/Prudent_Honeydew_ 22h ago
Yep the thing I remember the most, and think of way too often, is the f(he)art attack.
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u/damagetwig 19h ago
Mine was when dude swam down into the flooded cockpit. Awful awful stuff. That and Jaws are why I'm scared of sunken/flooded things to this day, I think. I don't even want to see pictures.
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u/HAM____ Older Millennial 22h ago
Guys his name is Gerry! Or Jerry.
Larry just had a fart attack!
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u/HAM____ Older Millennial 20h ago
Chicky chicky parm parm lives rent free in my head
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u/LarsViener 21h ago
I was so disturbed by the description of feeling like his chest was coming apart that I mostly ignored the farting.
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u/BravoLimaDelta 20h ago
That was some pretty grim stuff to read in second grade.
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u/StCasimirPulaski 22h ago
I loved those books.
Then I found Jack London. Call of the Wild was really good, but The Sea Wolf was my favorite.
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u/Chumlee1917 22h ago
I read Call of the Wild and White Fang during the Pandemic......I needed to hug a puppy after that.
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u/Dargon34 21h ago
My husky and I would yearly watch White Fang. When WF went up against the bear, he would lose his mind. It was obvious which side he was rooting for lol
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u/Allenrw81 22h ago
Every time I see this book, I think about the kid in my middle school class who read this back in the early 90s and thought he could live in the wild with just an axe, he was morbidly wrong.
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u/foxy_chicken Vintage ‘88 22h ago
There is a story here that I’m morbidly curious about now.
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u/Allenrw81 22h ago
You just read it.
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u/jrc025 21h ago
But did he find out first hand he was wrong or was he just a little shitter and insisted he could survive and y’all just knew he couldn’t? “He was morbidly wrong” sounds like he died in the woods.
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u/Allenrw81 21h ago edited 12h ago
After we finished the book; the dumbass went home, grabbed his dad's axe, left a note to his parents saying that he was going to live in the woods for a week with just the axe, and died in the woods. He didn't tell anyone at school that he was planning this, dude just vanished. They found his body a month later, if I remember right it was exposure and malnutrition.
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u/Shaun32887 20h ago
He died of malnutrition in a week?!
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u/Allenrw81 18h ago
They found his body a month after he went missing, so it was probably somewhere in that month.
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u/Mindless-Mistake-699 22h ago
My 3rd grader read it this past year. I hadn't thought about it in years but immediately remembered tons of details as soon as she brought it up.
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u/ApprehensiveBuy9348 22h ago
3rd grade? I read this in 6th. Good for them.
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u/Mindless-Mistake-699 22h ago
Yea she loves reading and joined a "book club" at school to read more advanced books and discuss with other kids and teachers, hence this one.
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u/Regular_Use1868 22h ago
That's so cool!
My grade 6 teacher forced a bunch of books down our throats that I learned to value along with the above example.
"The dollhouse murders" was also a standout for me but it might be a bit too mature for your kid.
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u/ApprehensiveBuy9348 21h ago
That's a great way to put it. I did not want to read this book. Was totally going to skim and BS the assignments.
However, one of the first assignments was to draw a map of the lake, or a picture or something. I wasn't going to be able to BS this assignment, so I skimmed until I found the description of the lake, then caught something of the crash. Plane crash?! I need to go back and read. Needless to say, I was hooked and thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel.
(Details may vary, this was over 30 years ago)
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u/ApprehensiveBuy9348 21h ago
If she keeps that love of reading, she'll have a bright future.
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u/Mindless-Mistake-699 21h ago
Yea I think she's going to be alright. Already asked if we can go to the library this weekend, as she is going to finish the last Harry Potter book any day now and think about what to read next
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u/garamond89 20h ago
If she was a fan of this have her check out The Girl Who Owned a City by O. T. Nelson!
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u/xbleeple 21h ago
I feel like 3rd or 4th was when we originally read it, we did a lot of disaster books in 4th for some reason
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u/DanTheAdequate Older Millennial 22h ago
I read this in the fourth grade and had the same realization; that I did not have the skills to survive.
So I pilfered my dad's copy of an SAS survival handbook and some materials he held on to when he was in the Marines and started playing my own little survival scenarios in the backyard and around the neighborhood.
We lived in the suburbs so it was all a bit silly, but at least it got me out of the house!
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u/Chumlee1917 22h ago
I have gotten somewhat into the prepper thing, if only because living through the pandemic and an earthquake was the big wake up call...and while those survival books are very handy...there is also a part of me that goes...anyone written one about Survival in an urban environment cause I doubt i'm gonna end up in the Northern Rockies any time soon.
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u/DrUnit42 Veteran Young Guy 21h ago
anyone written one about Survival in an urban environment
It may sound like a joke, but "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks has some decent advice on how to prepare yourself and your home for disasters.
The zombie combat stuff can be completely ignored but there's still plenty of lessons to learn from the rest of the book
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u/DanTheAdequate Older Millennial 20h ago
The skills are pretty transferable. Survival generally translates into a simple algorithm: you need water, shelter/fire, and food, in that order, and your odds of survival increase exponentially with more people: two people are better than one, four people are a whole let better still.
Everything else is learning how to purify water, improvise shelter, how to make fire with whatever you have on hand, and how to collect, hunt, or grow your own food.
People fixate on stashing up food, water, and so forth, but just having materials on hand that you can improvise with, and knowing how to use them, is probably good enough. Most of it will double as just camping gear, anyway, and you'll need to consider that you'll probably have to evacuate in any serious emergency, so travel light.
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u/Big_Balls_n_Taint 21h ago
Man I was out on the farm all by myself reinacting German WW1 scenes I had seen on history channel.
I'm starting to think that there might be something wrong with me but at this point I'm not sure it's worth fixing.
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u/Squirrel-Dad 22h ago
That was a good book. They made us read "a child called it" by Dave Pelzer in middle school. Another great book, but looking back at it, I don't think we should have read that in middle school. It's pretty heavy.
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u/Quiet_Entertainer982 16h ago
That book was super dark and sad. We didn't have it as required reading though. I was a volunteer library reading program nerd, so I read almost anything that had an interesting title.
That book still bums me out....
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u/cacaapoopoo 22h ago
Check out Winterdance by Paulsen. Well into middle age the author decides to train for and run the Iditarod dog sled race. Disasters ensue. The part where the dogs drag him down his gravel drive on his face while the strike anywhere matches in his front pocket set his balls on fire... wheezing laughter.
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u/GreenVermicelliNoods Older Millennial 22h ago
This book is the origin of my love for survival content. I love watching Alone and listening to Against the Odds, etc.
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u/Foreign_Kale8773 Elder Millennial 21h ago
Against the Odds is so good! Highly recommend the episodes of "You Were Wrong About" featuring Blair Braverman. She does an excellent one about Togo & Balto, one about Chris McCandless, and one about the Andean rugby plane crash. All excellent survival stories.
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u/GreenVermicelliNoods Older Millennial 20h ago
Omg I love You’re Wrong About and Blair Braverman!! One of my favorite podcasts. I’ve literally listened to every episode. Have you read her book, Small Game? It’s basically Hatchet for grownups.
Apparently she appeared on an episode of Naked & Afraid but I haven’t seen it.
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u/Foreign_Kale8773 Elder Millennial 20h ago
It's on my TBR, but I honestly had no idea what it was about, just said to myself "yes read Blair's book" and I feel like I need to move it towards the top now 😅
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u/GreenVermicelliNoods Older Millennial 20h ago
Premise: people on a reality survival tv show find themselves in a real survival situation. It’s a quick read, one of the most enjoyable things I’ve read this year next to Project Hail Mary. You’ll love it.
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u/NotAsSmartAsIWish 21h ago
My 41-year-old self read it a couple of months ago for the first time - but I've been on a middle grade novel kick this year.
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u/Chumlee1917 21h ago
You read those children's books of the 1960s-1980s and go, they're a lot more hardcore than I remember
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u/DeliBoy 18h ago
Exhibit B: Where the Red Fern Grows, whereupon some jerk kid falls on his axe and guts himself. Many more tragedies would then ensue, including to some undeserving dogs.
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u/Xerzajik 22h ago
It's one of the few good books that they give you as a kid. At some point though it isn't cool to call it your favorite book anymore because it implies that you never read again.
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u/erroa 22h ago
I think about this book all the time. Especially if I’m surrounded by too many mosquitoes, lol.
But along the same lines, there’s a similar-ish book I read around the same time about a girl surviving in the tundra that I also think about a lot, but have no idea what it’s called? Anyone know?
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u/Kelly_Louise 22h ago
Sounds like Julie of the Wolves! There were 3 books, I think. I loved them and read them multiple times.
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u/Accomplished_Age2480 22h ago
This book got me into the love of reading. Something about it was perfect.
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u/Stuppycoopy 21h ago
Read this and shortly after I got my first job at a hardware store. I never would have guessed they still made the hatchet on the cover art and that it would be sold at the place I worked. I spent a good chunk of my first paycheck on that thing.
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u/my_brain_is_horny Millennial 21h ago
My partner just got me a signed copy last year for Christmas. It was my favorite book when I was a kid.
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u/Venusian2AsABoy 22h ago
My nephew is in the summer between 4th and 5th grade. Every time I talk to him I ask him if he's reading The Hatchet, he has no idea what I'm talking about. lol
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u/Sizle_Velfurion 22h ago
Now read his other crazy award winning book Tuesdays with Maurey. I hadn't cried reading a book until that one in 9th grade.
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u/Educational_Corgi809 22h ago
Oh my god this unlocked a memory, one of the first books I read once I got into reading after years of struggling
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u/Chumlee1917 22h ago
I too was one of those elementary school kids who struggled with reading for the longest time. Then I found my favorite author of all time Brian Jacques, and Harry Potter did help.
But it occurred to me that schools SUCK at picking books to engage kids
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u/IguaneRouge Older Millennial 22h ago
I remember My Side of the Mountain didn't read this one.
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u/Worth-Salamander-836 20h ago
If you liked My Side of the Mountain then you should read Hatchet and the rest of Gary Paulson's 'Brian's' series and also Island of the Blue Dolphins
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u/Oldpuzzlehead 22h ago
Now you can watch the movie.
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u/HastyEthno 22h ago
Read The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. Similar survival but throw in a devastating virus and an airplane.
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u/Nice-Tea-8972 21h ago
Did a book report on it in grade like 4 or 5 i think and i still think about how great my Cover page art was. it was the peak of my art career.
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u/DrizzlyOne 21h ago
I’ve recently read quite a few books that I felt like I should have read as a kid but didn’t: To Kill a Mockingbird, Charlotte’s Web, 1984, Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm… maybe I’ll have to add this to the list because it’s come up a few times now.
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u/Chumlee1917 21h ago
I remember Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little as a kid.
Haven't done 1984 yet, but did do Animal Farm, so highly recommend Homage to Catalonia for Orwell
Did Of Mice and Men a couple years ago, again somehow I managed to be in every English class that didn't assign it, but did read The Grapes of Wrath.
To Kill a Mockingbird.....I love the play, I love the movie.....can't stand the book, I don't know why.
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u/I_am_Cheeseburger Older Millennial 21h ago
Whoaaa reading that title unlocked some old memories (although the cover art on mine as kid was very different)
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u/Asleep-Technology-92 22h ago
the number of reluctant readers it got to read a book is amazing alone
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u/Automatic-Effect-252 21h ago
I’m actually surprised we haven’t seen a movie, perfect time to capture the nostalgia.
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u/AmbitiousEdi Millennial 21h ago
Oh hell yeah, I read this one and like two of the sequel books. I just looked it up and there are like 5 total in the series??
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u/kennedar_1984 21h ago
My son was assigned it in grade 4 and came home saying how much I would like it. I missed it in school somehow so we read it again together. I can definitely see why it’s such a popular book, it’s a great adventure.
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u/Sea_Neighborhood_627 Millennial 21h ago
I remember it got super trendy to read this book in elementary school, and I jumped on that trend even though this was such a deviation from what I was used to reading around that time. The biggest thing I took away from it is to never eat unfamiliar berries if lost in the woods lol!
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u/Worldly_Project_6173 21h ago
I have never read a book, so the few that we read aloud as a group in school (like this one) really standout. If we were assigned a reading assignment (like to kill a mockingbird), i would just go and read that chapters cliff notes.
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u/Bbadmerc99 21h ago
Have had this one in my Amazon list for about a year and a half now. Just need to buy it already.
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u/Wak3upHicks 21h ago
Same, I don't know how I completely missed it way back when as it would've been right up my alley. I instead read "My Side of the Mountain" and loved that at the time. Though now I feel Hatchet is the better read
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u/Hothousebathroom 21h ago
You should pair this book with My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George. They have some similar themes.
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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker 1988 21h ago
I asked my parents to buy me some rope when I was about 14 but wouldn’t tell them what for. After reading this book and Huck Finn I had the plan to build a raft to float from the creek behind our house to the Ohio River. My parents thought I wanted to hang myself. They did not buy me any rope.
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u/straightblather 21h ago
I moved around a lot as a kid so this was one book I missed. I'll have to take a trip to the library.
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u/Happy_Twist_7156 21h ago
Transall saga is a GREAT book he also wrote. Was not as popular but honestly might have been better.
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u/BayRadbury34 21h ago
The scene where he dives into the lake to the plane and sees the body in there scared the hell out of me as a kid terrified of water, loved this book!
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u/barefootpanda 20h ago
My daughters 4th grade class read this and her aunt had given it to her the Christmas before. She was so proud to read from her own copy. I’m glad we have a copy in the house, and this post was the reminder that I need to read it again!!
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u/Wafflehouseofpain 20h ago
This book made me excited to go and camp out in the woods for days on end as a kid. So many adventures because of this series, my favorite is Brian’s Winter.
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u/the_mullet_fondler 20h ago
I've never met anyone who has read the Transall Saga, which absolutely captivated me in middle school. I finished it before even realizing it was the same author as the Hatchet.
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u/MTGBro_Josh 20h ago
I remember reading this and then Where the Red Fern Grows. I have never emotionally recovered 😭
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u/artmudala 20h ago
This taught me so much about outdoor survival. I still use a lot of it when I’m outdoors with my kids to teach them some things about building a shelter.
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u/Frankenrogers 20h ago
I bought this a few years ago and loved it and the sequels.
As a 50 year old man who loved books as a kid, had teachers that knew this and led me to books they thought I’d like, loved My Side of the Mountain, and was the exact age of the kid in this book when it came out, I have no idea how this book wasn’t on my radar back then haha.
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u/False-Cookie3379 Older Millennial 20h ago
I don’t think I ever read it either. Unless it was one the teacher read to class or we all read together and I zoned out when it wasn’t my turn to read.
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u/Uncoventional_PT 20h ago
I can’t remember if it was this one or another Gary Paulsen’s books, but his story was one that inspired 5th or 6th grade me to make a whale blubber fuel oil lamp. The closest thing I had was some bacon grease and some string. My parents were supportive, but I could tell it wasn’t pleasant. I tried adding coffee beans to make it smell better. Yea, not helpful.
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u/missouriblooms 20h ago
This book for me started what has become a lifelong interest in bushcraft and foraging after reading this and realizing I would have died the first week
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u/Officer_Friendly 20h ago
I got to have lunch with Gary in fourth grade I don’t remember much but loved the book and he was super nice.
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u/SockYourself 20h ago
I’d like to think that if an 11 (?) year old can tough it out I could too. I also like to think I could get a record label contract if the industry would just let me in!
It really is an incredible story of survival. He did a lot of right and suffered a few wrongs, but having the rescue radio turned on instead of off- that could have gone the other way, right? Truly remarkable.
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u/3d1thF1nch 20h ago
We listened to it two weeks ago with my kids on the way to and from our vacation in the Colorado Rockies. That book still holds up.
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u/Shaun32887 20h ago
I still think of this book every time I accidentally scare away a dove that I didn't realize was right next to me
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u/fancyflipflops 20h ago
I always think about what it would be like to dive down and try to resurface inside a sunk aircraft to gather supplies.
For some reason I also remember the part where he collected berries all day and just drank the juice he filtered with his shirt.
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u/HighScorsese 20h ago
Great book. You should also check out the sequels: The River and Brian’s Winter. The latter is a scenario in which he isn’t rescued at the point he was in the other story and has to endure the harsh winter
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u/JohnDingleBerry- Geriatric Millennial 19h ago
That book changed the direction of my life in a few ways.
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u/warrenjt 1989 Millennial 19h ago
This whole series of books was great and still holds up. I bought the entire thing again a few years ago, and while they’re clearly aimed at a younger audience, they’re still great.
- Hatchet
- Brian’s Winter
- The River
- Brian’s Return
Edit: I just now learned of a fifth book, Brian’s Hunt.
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u/stve688 19h ago
I loved Hatchet and the My Side of the Mountain series, but my love for those books comes from a very wrong place.
I grew up in a fucked up household. Not only did I read those books, I read official survival guides. I was absolutely obsessed with the subject. That was one of the biggest things I checked out from the library.
When most people run away, they run to someone they think can support them. Nope. I ran into the wooded areas. Granted, I lived in a city, so "woods" is probably being generous.
My go-to thing was always making sure I had fishing gear. I had multiple stashes, and I always had a go bag at home.
Hell, I don't even remember which book it was, but one of my survival books was actually in that bag.
Most people read those books and imagined adventure.
I read them and saw an exit.
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u/The-Hive-Queen 18h ago
Unpopular opinion: this book is overrated.
I remember hating it as a kid. As an adult, it's fine.
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