Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

55 reviews

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

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

adrizeuza's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.0

I have never seen someone put into words so well the process of anticipated grief one is thrust into as one becomes the primary caretaker of a family member in palliative care. What a punch in the gut.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual harassment

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

violetbooklover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Grief, 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

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.

kelleykamanda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

3.5

A cautionary tale to what it means to be young and naive. Good writing, sad but moving story, a series of very dumb and dangerous choices.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, and Abortion

caitlinkelly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Abortion, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment