Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

41 reviews

orchidd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective

4.0

the description of

the death of lady, the horse

was excellently, horribly paced—very memorable. i found myself uninterested in a lot of the descriptions of the trail but strayed’s ruminations on her mother (particularly the fox on the trail and the section where she describes feeling anger at her mother, especially her anger that she died when strayed was young, keeping her trapped a child) will stay with me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion

beccah42's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer and Abortion

mbrewer714's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug use, and Sexual content

simranpahwa's review against another edition

adventurous

3.0

Good book about grief and overcoming it. I definitely don’t agree with everything she did but I guess that was part of her process. Still, I don’t feel like she was great person just because she walked the PCT… she did plenty of things to hurt others with literally no regard for them. Just because you are hurting doesn’t give you the right to hurt others. But the fact that she was able to acknowledge that she caused pain was in a sense also comforting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual content

ominousevent's review

I enjoyed Strayed's Dear Sugar columns, back in the day when she was Sugar, and this book had been vaguely on my radar for a long time. I'm not sure how much I enjoyed it, in the end; I appreciate the emotional journey she shares, and likewise her experiences of hiking and the environments she travelled through, but ultimately it all felt a bit empty and unsatisfying. Maybe partly due to the narration, maybe a failure on my part to connect with the-author-as-character. I can't really put my finger on it at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, and Abortion

asurasantosha's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Sexual assault, Medical content, Abortion, and Alcohol

leefox's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual content and Pregnancy

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

this is a memoir where all i can really say is that im so glad cheryl was so open with her life in this book, giving us readers such an intimate look into her story as she took us all along with her on the pacific crest trail. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

whimsicalish's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I haven't read anything else from Cheryl Strayed but this felt genuine. I appreciated the honesty and informative memoir from her. This entire experience couldn't have been easy to write and share. 

Also, I never heard of the Pacific Crest Trail so this was educational too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity and Sexual content

Minor: Addiction and Drug use

readingrainbowroad's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

Book: 3.5 stars. This book is at its heart one about immense grief and how people process it differently. I've heard this book compared to Eat, Pray, Love (which I've never read but heard the criticisms of) and I think if you view this book as another travel memoir, it misses a lot of the main heart of the story and what Cheryl Strayed was going through at the time. I think having gone through a very similar thing (mom dying suddenly of cancer) made this book incredibly more relatable and understandable.

Audiobook narrator: 5 stars. Would listen to Bernadette Dunne read 100 more books in a heartbeat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Abortion, and Alcohol