Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

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

91 reviews

merylas's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

While I’m not sure I would be friends with Cheryl in real life, I understand some of her mindset and (lack of) logical thinking. I have also been someone in their 20’s who lost a parent, no, their beacon, which set you in a path of bad choices endlessly reaching to be on the other side of lost. Unlike Cheryl, I did not decide to go (unprepared) on an a backpacking trip. Yes this is the story of said trip but it’s more the story of finding yourself where one might get lost. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

am4man's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion and Sexual harassment

sratchellis's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

annaofjesup's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Medical content, Cannibalism, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Body horror, Sexism, Blood, Excrement, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

siobhanward's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

3.5

 Dang, this is a DIVISIVE book. Like people either adore it or despise it. Wild (pun intended). I'm not sure what y'alls experience with distance (or thru) content is, but going in wildly unprepared like Strayed did is absolutely common. I'm not sure why people are so shocked that she would do it. Read Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods - there was a huge lack of preparedness there too. Not to mention that even in 2022 people are still doing thru hikes while grossly unprepared - check out Tiktok and you'll see tons of people, who, like Strayed, just kind of rolled up to the trail and hoped for the best. I'm just impressed Strayed managed 190 days (mostly) on the trail - most people seem to drop out a lot faster than her.

Anyway, defense of Strayed aside, the book was fine. Some parts were super engrossing, while others were boring. Truly, I don't care about all the conversations you had where people talked about how hot you were and/or brave for doing the PCT. Like, it's great (and frankly, I believe it), but after a while I just didn't care. Sorry. The parts about Strayed's mom were powerful and I loved how those parts were written. Other parts just seemed unneeded.

Also, hiking any huge distance trail just seems terrible. 0/10 will never attempt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, and Drug use

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

kmaron's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Death of parent

andireadsawesomely's review against another edition

funny inspiring

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

miggyfool's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Vomit and Abortion

jasminrain's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail