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

39 reviews

maus652's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Terminal illness, and Sexual harassment

orchidd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective

4.0

the description of

the death of lady, the horse

was excellently, horribly paced—very memorable. i found myself uninterested in a lot of the descriptions of the trail but strayed’s ruminations on her mother (particularly the fox on the trail and the section where she describes feeling anger at her mother, especially her anger that she died when strayed was young, keeping her trapped a child) will stay with me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion

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, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

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

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, and Abortion

neliadiedenise's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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

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

gardens_and_dragons's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

I thought that this was a really interesting book about one women’s journey into the wilderness, to kind of save herself.

The hiking portion of the book was super inspiring! She was wicked badass even if some of the mistakes she made were anxiety inducing. Also great to see how mostly the hiking community treated her. 

 For the non-hiking parts of the book, I was always surprised at what she was thinking and doing. While I did not agree with the choices that she made, she was in pain and was looking to do what she needed to do at the time. Interesting to get to see how other people wildly different than you think. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail