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Wild by Cheryl Strayed

78 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

idesofmarch's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Child death and Sexual harassment

todelisus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexism, Animal death, and Sexual content

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

iriwindel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity and Drug use

Minor: Abortion

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

mbrewer714's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Drug use, and Animal death

simranpahwa's review against another edition

adventurous

3.0

Good book about grief and overcoming it. I definitely don’t agree with everything she did but I guess that was part of her process. Still, I don’t feel like she was great person just because she walked the PCT… she did plenty of things to hurt others with literally no regard for them. Just because you are hurting doesn’t give you the right to hurt others. But the fact that she was able to acknowledge that she caused pain was in a sense also comforting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Sexual content and Drug use

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