Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

55 reviews

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

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

tabear's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexism and Toxic relationship

jesstele's review against another edition

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

turnip11's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Cancer, Drug abuse, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Abortion

feathers4bookmarks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

I loved this story, it was a bit entirely what I expected, and I thought multiple times over “what were you thinking?!”, but it was an interesting and different read. The author wasn’t super likable to me,  and she has some really dark thoughts that she doesn’t hold back. I could see someone not liking the book as well if they just don’t like Cheryl and wanted a more likable person to read about. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Grief, and Abortion

adorkabledorcas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail