The book is Into the Wild, by John Krakauer. This is Jennifer's recommendation. Actually, she recommended the movie, but I thought the book would be more interesting, so I got it from my local library.
And interesting it was. I had not heard of Christopher McCandless, who after earning his college degree cut off all links with his family and basically became a hobo. Two years later, he died of starvation in Alaska. Knowing the outcome from the beginning of the book was no spoiler. Rather, I was amazed on how much my opinion on McCandles evolved as I kept reading. The author was very thorough in following his steps and narrating them in detail. This book would be excellent were it not for the inclusion of other similar cases or the digression about the author's related experience. This book was supposed to be about only one person and I wish it had remained so.
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Yeah, I do agree about the digressions. However, I think the author was trying to figure out for himself, how things went to wrong for McCandless leading to his death. I think the digressions were his way to process it.
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