The story of Alex McCandless is extremely nuanced and interesting.

I see both sides of the argument of a privileged white guy travelling into the Alaskan wilderness full of arrogance and unprepared. But I also see the love of adventure and intelligence behind the man himself. However, I hated Krakauer as a biographer and had huge distaste for his clear bias, the personal tangent he took about Jack London, and I guess overall him fitting his personal connection to Alex throughout his narrative of him. I also hated his insistence on referring to Alex by his birth name instead of his chosen name, it felt in bad taste and disrespectful to Alex and his whole story to repetitively refer to him as the name he abandoned.

I would love to read Alex's personal journals without the bias lense of a biographer and definitely will not be reading any more of Krakauer's works.