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

60 reviews

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: Abortion, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Grief, and Drug abuse

ibjilln's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse and Suicidal thoughts

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

adorkabledorcas's review against another edition

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

spine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

serian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Drug use, Death of parent, Grief, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment

hlipman22's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

kb33's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Animal death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Abortion, and Death of parent

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