This book, while long winded at times, was a very introspective biography of a young man's last few years before he disappeared in the Alaskan wilderness. McCandless' story is one of a different time, that of a young man searching for wilderness that simply doesn't exist anymore. Listening to his last few years was remarkable-- his long-winded time spent hitchhiking across the country, paddling down the Colorado River to the Pacific Ocean, and his stubbornness in the face of retrospective common sense was bewildering to me (as a white, decently well off female). That said, the story did drag in the middle, and we don't actually follow McCandless' final journey until the very last part of the book. However, I hold a deep respect for McCandless, though, for having the bravery to fight against normalcy and try to find his sanctuary.