Full Review from my blog Owl Eyes Reviews

I wouldn’t have been attracted to this book if I would not have seen the movie first. I only have seven movies that I can claim as my favorite and “Into the Wild” is one of those seven. To be honest, I haven’t watched the movie in quite a long time. It’s been years since I’ve added this book to my list. So, I was pretty nervous when picking this one up because I feared I had lost touch with the original motivation I had to read the book. Now that I’m done with reading the book, I have a new found motivation to watch the movie again because this book was beautiful.

I’m actually surprised with how interesting I found this book because I’m not usually one for non-fiction. I believe I am just as a time where everything I once thought about my reading habits are no longer true. This book only confirmed confirmed that I’m changing because there were parts of this book where I could not put it down.

One of the main reasons that parts of this book captivated me was purely for the fact that one man had such a big impact on so many people. I really love reading stories like that, where someone was so important to so many people that they had to share that person with the world. The face that Chris is not longer with us made the story so much more hard to read. It was beautiful.

The reason this book was not over the moon amazing for me was because there was too much time spent comparing McCandless to others who ventured into the wild. The first few were interesting but after those, it got somewhat boring. It felt like filler.

All is all, I’m glad I read this book. It has opened my eyes to the fact that maybe nonfiction isn’t awful.