Blue sky, green trees
When I watched the movie "Into the Wild" many years ago, I was very moved by Chris McCandless and his adventure-gone-wrong. He seemed earnest and moved by the beauty of nature and he fucked up just a little and the consequences were total. However, the Chris McCandless in the book is something completely different. While he still seems earnest and moved by the beauty of nature, he comes off as arrogant and insufferable, gazing at everyone from heights of self-righteousness; I loathe self-righteousness. Yet somehow everyone who met him (in the book) thought Chris was the greatest person ever. I would generally have guessed that the author had a general dislike for McCandless and that it came through in his writing, but over the course of the book it becomes very clear to the reader that this isn't the case at all, and I won't say more in case it borders on spoilers.
So, an interesting book for sure. And I quite like how Krakauer writes, and how he looks at things. I just didn't like Chris McCandless.
When I watched the movie "Into the Wild" many years ago, I was very moved by Chris McCandless and his adventure-gone-wrong. He seemed earnest and moved by the beauty of nature and he fucked up just a little and the consequences were total. However, the Chris McCandless in the book is something completely different. While he still seems earnest and moved by the beauty of nature, he comes off as arrogant and insufferable, gazing at everyone from heights of self-righteousness; I loathe self-righteousness. Yet somehow everyone who met him (in the book) thought Chris was the greatest person ever. I would generally have guessed that the author had a general dislike for McCandless and that it came through in his writing, but over the course of the book it becomes very clear to the reader that this isn't the case at all, and I won't say more in case it borders on spoilers.
So, an interesting book for sure. And I quite like how Krakauer writes, and how he looks at things. I just didn't like Chris McCandless.