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Purchased for BBC.

Just realized I never wrote a journal entry on this. hmmmm ... this space saved for that, when I get around to it!

Updated 5/14/08 to write a little bit about the book:
First, there's this online discussion from book club. We had a very interesting discussion on this, both on and offline, and I have to say I was surprised, because I didn't much like it, and was ready to forget about it as soon as I finished reading it :) In fact, I have zero interest in the movie based on this, that came out in the last year.

The discussion on page 177 about moose vs. caribou pretty much sums up for me my disappointment in this book, why I didn't like it, and why I felt like McCandless' life was wasted:

"The kid didn't know what the hell he was doing up here."

"You'd have to be pretty stupid not to be able to tell them apart."

I duly reported McCandelss's mistake in the article I wrote for Outside, thereby confirming the opinion of countless readers that McCandless was ridiculously ill prepared, that he had no business heading into any wilderness, let alone into the big-league wilds of teh Last Frontier. Not only did McCandless die because he was stupid, one Alaska correspondent observed, but "the scope of his self-styled adventure was so small as to ring pathetic -- squatting in a wrecked bus a few miles out of Healy, potting jays and squirrels, mistaking a caribou for a moose (pretty hard to do) ... Only one word for the guy: incompetent."

This book just made me sad, and not the least because I already knew the ending when I started reading it :)

Anyway, the good news is a friend saw the movie recently, and actually wants to read it, so I'm sending it to her!

Saw the movie on recommendation from my friend Clay. My BFF sent the book to me to see if I could figure out the sybolism of the airplanes

BFF's boss wants to read the book so I'm passing it on to her