Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

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

47 reviews

kelleykamanda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

3.5

A cautionary tale to what it means to be young and naive. Good writing, sad but moving story, a series of very dumb and dangerous choices.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Vomit, Abortion, Animal death, Excrement, and Suicide

caitlinkelly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Drug abuse, Medical content, and Infidelity

Minor: Addiction, Sexual harassment, Blood, Alcohol, and Abortion

annaofjesup's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Grief, Terminal illness, and Animal death

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Abandonment, Gore, Medical content, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Death, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Body horror, Sexism, Abortion, Alcohol, Addiction, Excrement, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

siobhanward's review

adventurous reflective medium-paced

3.5

 Dang, this is a DIVISIVE book. Like people either adore it or despise it. Wild (pun intended). I'm not sure what y'alls experience with distance (or thru) content is, but going in wildly unprepared like Strayed did is absolutely common. I'm not sure why people are so shocked that she would do it. Read Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods - there was a huge lack of preparedness there too. Not to mention that even in 2022 people are still doing thru hikes while grossly unprepared - check out Tiktok and you'll see tons of people, who, like Strayed, just kind of rolled up to the trail and hoped for the best. I'm just impressed Strayed managed 190 days (mostly) on the trail - most people seem to drop out a lot faster than her.

Anyway, defense of Strayed aside, the book was fine. Some parts were super engrossing, while others were boring. Truly, I don't care about all the conversations you had where people talked about how hot you were and/or brave for doing the PCT. Like, it's great (and frankly, I believe it), but after a while I just didn't care. Sorry. The parts about Strayed's mom were powerful and I loved how those parts were written. Other parts just seemed unneeded.

Also, hiking any huge distance trail just seems terrible. 0/10 will never attempt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, and Animal death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Drug use, Misogyny, Grief, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Addiction, and Alcohol

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: Sexism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Blood, Dysphoria, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death, Abandonment, Alcohol, Cancer, Gaslighting, Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Drug use, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abortion and Vomit

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

tabear's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, Addiction, Infidelity, Blood, Cancer, Cursing, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Sexism

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: Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, and Vomit

turnip11's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug abuse, Addiction, Death of parent, Grief, Animal death, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Abortion