Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

56 reviews

pixelited's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Just an absolutely astounding book that I wholly enjoyed cover to cover. Strayed’s writing is incredibly beautiful, eloquent, and entranced me with visions of her journey and life. Despite the descriptions of how hard the PCT is, her experience has only made me want to hike it more.

Truly a fantastic book, I would recommend this to anyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Cancer, Grief, Animal death, Drug use, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, and Sexism

Minor: Abortion

fboschetti's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse

parasolcrafter's review

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

this is a memoir where all i can really say is that im so glad cheryl was so open with her life in this book, giving us readers such an intimate look into her story as she took us all along with her on the pacific crest trail. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Animal death, Cursing, Blood, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, and Sexism

violetbooklover's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, Cancer, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Addiction

readingrainbowroad's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

Book: 3.5 stars. This book is at its heart one about immense grief and how people process it differently. I've heard this book compared to Eat, Pray, Love (which I've never read but heard the criticisms of) and I think if you view this book as another travel memoir, it misses a lot of the main heart of the story and what Cheryl Strayed was going through at the time. I think having gone through a very similar thing (mom dying suddenly of cancer) made this book incredibly more relatable and understandable.

Audiobook narrator: 5 stars. Would listen to Bernadette Dunne read 100 more books in a heartbeat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Medical content, Animal death, Grief, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Alcohol

clotalksbooks's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

An easy listen with a good narrator. A good mix of reflection on time before the trail with bits about walking the trail itself. So interesting and inspiring. Doesn't shy away from the hard details or the mistakes, doesn't try to paint herself in a perfect light. It's all the stronger and more relatable for it. Like the PCT itself though, this was long. Although I don't think anything was superfluous, it still felt quite a commitment. I'm glad I saw it through. I had previously watched the adaptation and I think it did a good job of pulling out the important bits. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Drug abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, and Cancer

tomnoor's review

4.75

Could have done without the horrific, graphic animal death. Otherwise really enjoyed, esp the author’s processing of grief losing a parent young. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Cancer

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Sexual harassment

ada33's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

I've read this book once before and I love it, she writes so beautifully and despite technically it's about a woman on a hike it's a lot more than that when you read. Very philosophical and spiritual buy in an accessible and relatable way. Highly recommend, particularly if you've had a hard life and/or dealt with grief, illness, addiction and sadness.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, and Death of parent

natgeographic's review

adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

I’m not hiking the PCT but I am living in Peru for 6 months— this was a good time to read this book. Away from friends and family, living a simpler life, doing hard things every day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Animal death

Moderate: Cursing, Addiction, Grief, Drug use, Cancer, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity

Personally was super turned off by the abortion story but overall I found the book introspective and inspiring.

kelsheymarie's review

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer