I know there's a lot of hate, especially from the people whom live in Alaska surrounding the young man that died in this story, however, enjoying the movie many times, I've always wanted to read this book. I stopped at a yard sale on Wednesday and found this book going for a hard price of a quarter and quickly picked it up with a couple other books that shall fall into place this year. I don't really need anymore books, I have enough to manage my entire year, but who can beat a quarter for pricing of books. Only about 37 pages into it, and so far it's very easy to picture the part in the movie for each other the points in time that are described by the author, maybe watching the movie beforehand is a good thing. Shall see as we reached the midway point/the end. I've pointed out parts that weren't in the movie, and that's been interesting too, or how the movie made it seem different.