Chose to read this for a book report in English and was interested by the cover. I get past the part where he hitchhiked to the Alaskan frontier and I get a lengthy set of hobo stories going into deep analysis of people I don't want to read about. Goes into minute detail of Chris's endeavors in Alaska which could be summed up into a couple sentences. The writing style is also very difficult to follow and unorganized. I'm also reading Into Thin Air right now and it has the same boring and inconsistent writing style. Pretty disappointed because both of these works seem very interesting and they are not.