Do you know anything about the movie?
I love bears, but I have a very healthy respect for those chompers. I would never camp anywhere near them after reading stories of bear attacks and one poor girl being dragged screaming from her tent. Nnnno thanks.
> I just finished reading the book called The
> Grizzly Maze. It was about Timothy
> Treadwell, the guy who was a self proclaimed
> grizzly bear expert and who got himself
> eaten by one of those bears.
> The book it's self wasn't very good even
> though the guy writing it did a lot of
> research. He needed to decided which angle
> he was going to write from. There was an
> awful lot of 'just suppose' theories and not
> enough flat out facts. It was interesting in
> parts but then I am interested in bears. The
> book wobbled from one writing style to
> another in a strange jumbly way. It didn't
> flow smoothly.
> Now to the topic, Timothy Treadwell. I had
> read his own book Among Grizzlies years ago.
> It was fascinating and I came away with the
> distinct impression that Tim was a nutcase.
> He was a Malibu new age wierdo and didnt
> know anything about grizzlies, but that
> didn't stop him from flying up to Alaska,
> pitching his tent in the middle of a grizzly
> trail and poking his face right into the
> bears business. He really loved the bears
> but his actions were careless about the
> bears safety, not to mention his own. During
> the winter Timothy went back to southern
> California and courted the rich and famous
> to support his nonprofit organisation for
> bear protection. The only problem
> was...there was no nonprofit status. People
> gave tons of money but it was all for Tims
> profit and crazy ideas. To his credit he did
> go to schools and give free lectures to
> children about bears.
> Anyway, I don't recommend the book Grizzly
> Maze. I didn't really learn anything new.
> Most of the information was covered already
> in the news articles that came out after
> Timothys death.