[Lil Dancer]

I did read the book and saw the movie and agree that the book was much less sympathetic to McCandless. I found it interesting that when he got to Alaska, he didn't really venture too far out into the wild - just to a point where there was an abandoned bus that might have been used by hunters as a base camp or stopover for longer trips. He really wasn't very far from civilization (which wasn't really clear in the movie). He seemed to want to get away from it all, but he didn't really. Of course, then his survival skills were not what they should have, and he perished. Seeing the movie got me wondering what it would like to be alone for long periods of time as he was. I don't think I could handle it.