Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

69 reviews

ominousevent's review against another edition

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, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

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

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, and Drug use

kmgard's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Animal death

neliadiedenise's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Abortion, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Grief, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death of parent, and Infidelity

pixelited's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Just an absolutely astounding book that I wholly enjoyed cover to cover. Strayed’s writing is incredibly beautiful, eloquent, and entranced me with visions of her journey and life. Despite the descriptions of how hard the PCT is, her experience has only made me want to hike it more.

Truly a fantastic book, I would recommend this to anyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Cancer, Grief, Animal death, Drug use, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, and Sexism

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

Moderate: Sexual harassment

parasolcrafter's review

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

amelie_rose's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Animal death

Minor: Drug use

headstuckinabook's review

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Minor: Animal death

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

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

elenaysuslibros's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death