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In a 1993 Outside magazine article about Christopher McCandless that he later expanded into the best-selling book, Into the Wild ( which was also made into a film ), Jon Krakauer summarizes the portrait of Christopher painted by friends, family, and schoolmates thusly: " McCandless could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify throughout his college years.