[Porsche-O-Phile]

I read Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air" which is far more interesting subject matter to me personally, but I learned that I really like his writing style - particularly his "documentary-style" honesty. I figured "Into the Wild" would be similarly written, which I found it mostly to be.

Honestly I find myself relating more and more to Christopher McCandless. As time goes on I get sicker and sicker with our society, how stupid and vapid it's becoming, how it crushes one's soul, etc. I think he was a very smart individual for recognizing that at such a young age and for having the balls to try and get away from it. However his "smarts" were offset by simple dumb hubris which eventually got him killed. It's an interesting story. You can read a lot of lessons into it - everything from "it's okay to be different" to "you should just accept things as they are unless you're willing to get yourself killed".

I didn't even realize they'd made a movie about it. Not much interest in seeing it really - books are always better. I doubt the movie would live up to my memory of the book and McCandless' story.