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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

84 reviews

kleedc73's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, and Abortion

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

amelie_rose's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Death of parent

Minor: 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

clotalksbooks's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

An easy listen with a good narrator. A good mix of reflection on time before the trail with bits about walking the trail itself. So interesting and inspiring. Doesn't shy away from the hard details or the mistakes, doesn't try to paint herself in a perfect light. It's all the stronger and more relatable for it. Like the PCT itself though, this was long. Although I don't think anything was superfluous, it still felt quite a commitment. I'm glad I saw it through. I had previously watched the adaptation and I think it did a good job of pulling out the important bits. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, and Death of parent

janetsuzanne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

tomnoor's review against another edition

4.75

Could have done without the horrific, graphic animal death. Otherwise really enjoyed, esp the author’s processing of grief losing a parent young. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Sexual harassment

natgeographic's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

I’m not hiking the PCT but I am living in Peru for 6 months— this was a good time to read this book. Away from friends and family, living a simpler life, doing hard things every day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Cursing, Drug use, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity

Personally was super turned off by the abortion story but overall I found the book introspective and inspiring.