Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

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

39 reviews

mandaraffe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, and Cancer

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, and Drug abuse

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

molly_hn's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

A perfectly imperfect metaphor for therapy; for therapeutic process and for human striving. The metaphors present will simultaneously haunt and inspire. I found this book in a YMCA charity shop and there is something serendipitous about that given the origins of the PCT. I've kept the book on my shelf for many years and have only just picked it up to read. Everything fell in to place... but a sort of slow falling. At first, the pace felt a little off with flashback that seemed to hold little relevance to the present happenings BUT the magic is in how these sequences actually resemble something true to human experiencing and human defence against experience: we do process in this way and it comes into place with greater and wider meaning in time. Meaning reveals itself slowly and is an ever shifting beast. I am not a hiker. I like nature in that all too millennial way-I know it exists beyond my walls; I know it benefits me; I bring it inside the walls in the form of houseplants... but I rarely have to time to be in and with it. That was not a barrier to appreciating the power and depths of this book. I wouldn't say the book is life-changing but it speaks to a process I feel is little represented in such a-true-to-individuation way. Favourite quote, which lacks meaning without context but perhaps you can insert your own

: 'I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. I was there now. Or close.' (p.290)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Fairly graphic descriptions of the wounds from hiking (squeamish). Takes an unflinching look at trauma, specifically processing post-trauma.

Graphic depiction of death of an animal which does become material that is processed by the protagonist but is, regardless, a difficult scene to read

canadabooks's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

alyx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Sexism, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Drug use

macaronsandmermaids's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Medical content

philippa_scholz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.5

I listened to this book in German and it was a perfect companion as I was backpacking for two weeks with my boyfriend. Her stories of family, self-discovery and adventure accompanied us on our bus journeys and has inspired us to go on a longer hike!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Alcoholism, and Sexual content

angelaf's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

 I found Wild disappointing. I had been so looking forward to reading it. I really enjoyed the hiking parts, but just couldn't identify with the personal parts of the author's life, such as the drug use and casual sex. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Sexual content

maryjanebeardsley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

What an Amazing story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

kaitemistry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

Such a painful, yet poetic, memoir of a broken woman seeking renewal in nature. Tough read emotionally, but very approachable. Cheryl writes from the heart in a raw and honest manner- truly brave. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, and Sexual content