Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

57 reviews

magnolia13's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Wow, this book. I honestly avoided it for a long time, because I knew the story would make me sad, but I was on a trip and it was one of the only things available. As someone who has always felt more connected in nature than anywhere else, following Cheryl on her journey as a woman hiking the trail was incredible. Her story is an inspiration to anyone struggling with grief or addiction, showing how you can overcome and persevere even when you feel you are at your lowest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug use, Grief, and Infidelity

ineedsomemoretea's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse and Blood

Minor: Sexual harassment

loesm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Abandonment, and Abortion

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

darla78's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Infidelity and Drug abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse

beccah42's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Cancer and Abortion

ominousevent's review against another edition

I enjoyed Strayed's Dear Sugar columns, back in the day when she was Sugar, and this book had been vaguely on my radar for a long time. I'm not sure how much I enjoyed it, in the end; I appreciate the emotional journey she shares, and likewise her experiences of hiking and the environments she travelled through, but ultimately it all felt a bit empty and unsatisfying. Maybe partly due to the narration, maybe a failure on my part to connect with the-author-as-character. I can't really put my finger on it at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, and Drug use

kmgard's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Animal death

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