Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

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

47 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

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

g123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Addiction

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

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

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

charm0nix's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use and Addiction

Minor: Abortion, Alcoholism, 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

daniellel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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