I watched the movie several months ago (and loved the soundtrack) and have found myself thinking back on Christopher McCandless often since then. I finally picked up this book. It helped give me some additional perspective on McCandless and his possible reasons for leaving his home and later leaving society. His story leaves me with a lot of unanswered existential questions (is a lesson learned but not applied a waste, or is the point the learning and not the application?). Any book that leaves me pondering after I'm through reading is a book I like.