"Into the wild" -the true story of the adventures of Chris McCandless

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
I just found out about this story recently, in typical fashion, about 20 years after it happened. Well, to my credit, less time has passed since the book and then the movie were created. I may comment more on this later, but I wanted to post this because I feel it is a remarkable story.

I stayed home from work today sick and caught a movie on AMC called "Awakenings" with Robert Deniro and Robin Williams. It's about patients with some form of encephalitis, who were basically comatose and catatonic, until treated with some form of Dopamine. This led to some temporary "awakening," in the case of Deniro's character, after 30 years. I don't know the story behind the movie, but I may look into it. I highly recommend it, I don't know why I never heard of this one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/