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

57 reviews

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

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Abortion, 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

nina_av's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Abortion

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

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: Cancer, Cursing, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

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

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual content, Abortion, and Pregnancy