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This past week has been challenging in more than one way. Physically, I've been completely drained. I went to the doctor and was prescribed antibiotics. I can breathe through my nose again. Anyway, I've been keeping busy this weekend with reading, sleeping, and spending time with my fiance, dog, and bunny.
I'm currently reading The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (sequel to The Golden Compass)
and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Pullman's work is entertaining.
From what I understand Into the Wild has been made into a film that is not yet released (I think). I was curious to see what the book was like. I'm about half way through and I'm finding it hard to stay interested in the story. The main character is interesting, but the author has added so many related, yet unrelated side stories describing others who have made poor decisions to venture into the Alaskan wild. I can do without the comparisons. At this rate, I don't know if I want to finish the book. There's so many other books I want to read.
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Into the Wild was made into a film recently. I think it's out of theaters now but not on DVD yet. I was really happy with it. I think the reason why Krakauer put so many other stories into the book was because one of the reasons why he wrote it was to figure out why he left everything to out out into the wilderness. One way of doing that is to look at others who have done the same. The film doesn't go into that. It's much more a narrative and doesn't take on a documentary style at all (which was what I expected), but nevertheless, it works.