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Wild by Cheryl Strayed

11 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

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

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

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

sweetjuly_src's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It says in my ‘read’ history that I’ve read this book three times now (including this last one, in 2023). To be honest, I remember reading it twice (don’t know what happened there - a glitch in the matrix? My memory is not the greatest in the last few years). That said, I don’t know how I could forget it, because I love this book so much, it seems impossible to me I’d forget the experience of reading it. Anyways, every time I read it I get emotional, immersed, inspired by Cheryl and her experience(s) and I just want to put a backpack on and go (and I’d have the same problem with packing, I bet 😅). I haven’t yet - not to that extent (3 months in the wilderness), though I’ve traveled both solo and accompanied, sometimes with a backpack, other times with a carry on, and I always learn something about myself/the place/someone else/… I’ve watched the movie, too, but I don’t like how it takes some of the decisions she made (in the book and her life) away from her and distorted them as suggestions and decisions made for her (I’ve only noticed it this time around). It’s very probable I’ll read it again in the future, to inspire myself to make changes and be bold and adventurous. ‘Till next time. ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Death, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Sexism

miggyfool's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Blood, Dysphoria, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death, Abandonment, Alcohol, Cancer, Gaslighting, Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Drug use, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abortion and Vomit

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Nov 2016
I really enjoyed this. Her writing style means the description of hiking the trail never gets boring, which it quite easily could be. It's a pretty inspiring story. Not that I'm planning on going on an adventure like that but I do enjoy reading about other people's. 

Nov 2022
I re-read this via audiobook and it was as good as I remembered. It was quite interesting to listen to it as I walked to and from work because although I felt tired sometimes, it was so far removed from Strayed's experience it was almost comical. I really admire how open and honest she is about her flaws and bad decisions. She writes heartbreakingly about her mother and I think it's one of the best memoirs I've read. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood, Sexual harassment, and Gore

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

adorkabledorcas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

mandaraffe's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, and Cancer

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, and Drug abuse

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment