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

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

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

sweetjuly_src's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It says in my ‘read’ history that I’ve read this book three times now (including this last one, in 2023). To be honest, I remember reading it twice (don’t know what happened there - a glitch in the matrix? My memory is not the greatest in the last few years). That said, I don’t know how I could forget it, because I love this book so much, it seems impossible to me I’d forget the experience of reading it. Anyways, every time I read it I get emotional, immersed, inspired by Cheryl and her experience(s) and I just want to put a backpack on and go (and I’d have the same problem with packing, I bet 😅). I haven’t yet - not to that extent (3 months in the wilderness), though I’ve traveled both solo and accompanied, sometimes with a backpack, other times with a carry on, and I always learn something about myself/the place/someone else/… I’ve watched the movie, too, but I don’t like how it takes some of the decisions she made (in the book and her life) away from her and distorted them as suggestions and decisions made for her (I’ve only noticed it this time around). It’s very probable I’ll read it again in the future, to inspire myself to make changes and be bold and adventurous. ‘Till next time. ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Death, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Sexism

jasminrain's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

szinkle's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual harassment, Cancer, Drug use, Sexual content, Gore, and Suicide

florapants84's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Cursing

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Excrement

samchase112's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Cheryl Strayed is a badass Pacific Crest Trail queen! And yet, she's also a complex human with thoughts and feelings and doubts and struggles. The power of Cheryl Strayed is that she manages to convey all this with the most understanding and humanity I think I've ever witnessed in another person. In this memoir, she expertly weaves her experience hiking the PCT — complete with all its hardships and triumphs, interesting and transformative moments — with her ruminations on everything that led her to that fateful summer. Being taken on that journey alongside her was truly a privilege, and I will always respect her for that. This was a powerful, powerful book, and I can't imagine not recommending it for years to come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Suicide, Blood, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Animal death, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Rape, Child abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

elyssajoh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Body shaming, Sexual content, and Body horror

adorkabledorcas's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

annabellereads99's review against another edition

inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Addiction, Terminal illness, and Sexual content

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

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

5.0

First book of the year and it was a great one!

After losing her mother to cancer, her close-knit family falling apart, a divorce, and a stint with heroin, Cheryl is desperate for solace. Impulsively, she decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, which runs thousands of miles from the Mexico border through California, Oregon, and Washington all the way to Canada. With only her will as her motivation, Cheryl sets out alone with no training and almost no money. It’s on the trail, somewhere between the Mojave Desert and the Washington Bridge of the Gods, that she faces her demons, both past and present.

Wild is a memoir chock-full of raw emotion, adventure, and a different type of coming-of-age. This is neither a how-to book for the PCT or a self-help book, it’s merely a story of how one young woman found her own way to heal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Cancer

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Abortion, and Sexual content