I had to read this book for a summer assignment for school and I thought it was horrible. I can't understand McCandless' motives for wanting to wander off into the wilderness all alone with no knowledge on how to survive. He seems very unintelligent to me. He had been book smart in school and very passionate about different causes so why did he feel the need to escape the real world? I also have a problem with the way the book was written. The author skips from one topic to the next. One chapter, he's died. The next, he's working at a Burger joint. After that, we tour his childhood. Then, he's dying. There is no chronological order and the flow of the story is choppy and hard to follow. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. Don't suffer like I had to!!!