Reviews tagging 'Death'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

29 reviews

laura_nel13's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Misogyny, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Suicide, Sexual content, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Domestic abuse

amelia_horseman's review

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Grief

orchidd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective

4.0

the description of

the death of lady, the horse

was excellently, horribly paced—very memorable. i found myself uninterested in a lot of the descriptions of the trail but strayed’s ruminations on her mother (particularly the fox on the trail and the section where she describes feeling anger at her mother, especially her anger that she died when strayed was young, keeping her trapped a child) will stay with me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexism, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

Minor: Abortion

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

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

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

janetsuzanne's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Domestic abuse

kelleykamanda's review

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

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

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