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natgeographic's review
4.0
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.gardens_and_dragons's review against another edition
3.5
The hiking portion of the book was super inspiring! She was wicked badass even if some of the mistakes she made were anxiety inducing. Also great to see how mostly the hiking community treated her.
For the non-hiking parts of the book, I was always surprised at what she was thinking and doing. While I did not agree with the choices that she made, she was in pain and was looking to do what she needed to do at the time. Interesting to get to see how other people wildly different than you think.
Graphic: Infidelity, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Animal death
Moderate: Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment
annaofjesup's review against another edition
5.0
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 against another edition
3.5
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.
Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, and Animal death
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
jasminrain's review
4.0
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
jesstele's review
3.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, and Vomit
florapants84's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Cursing
Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Abortion, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Excrement
hubes's review against another edition
4.0
Didn't really love the way weight kept coming back into the picture and the sex scene was fine if perhaps not quite my cup of tea lol.
Graphic: Death of parent
Moderate: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Stalking
adorkabledorcas's review against another edition
4.25
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
lesliesorensen's review
5.0
After adding the content warnings, I would like to say that ...
Graphic: Death, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief
Moderate: Infidelity and Drug use
Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail