Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail in The Roundtable

Apr 23, 2014 Petra rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction

I enjoyed this book. It's about long-distance hiking, something I like to think I would do one day, about finding one's self after loss & grief and about finding a way to forgiveness, understanding and strength to face the future.
I didn't like Cheryl at the beginning of the book, she made shaky decisions throughout the book but she became more aware of herself & her surroundings by the end and she was focussed and steady enough to face her future, whatever it held. One can't ask for more at cer ...more

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Apr 17, 2012 Christopher rated it it was ok

Shelves: 21st-century, audiobooks, memoir, american

It takes a lot of narcissism to write a memoir like this, and that's okay with me. I love the intensely narcissistic books of A.J. Jacobs, who does similar "look I did something crazy for a year and you should read about it" things. They're a guilty pleasure of mine; actually, they may just be a pleasure that I don't need to feel guilty about, because I learn a lot when I read them, like how hard is to live life without telling any lies, or that Ullyses S. Grant would have liked Venice if someon ...more

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Apr 22, 2012 Julie rated it really liked it

Shelves: memoir, travel, read-in-2012

I want to backpack the Pacific Crest Trail after reading this book. Well if it weren’t for all the things that could kill me, I would. Ok, who am I kidding? I am too wimpy to actually do such a thing. I whine about my knees hurting after 10 miles and joked I almost died (a slight exaggeration...) after a long, hilly hike through a couple inches of snow and mud. So I have to live vicariously through other people by reading books.
Cheryl Strayed made a lot of questionable decisions in her life befo ...more

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Mar 14, 2015 Pamela rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction

Following a number of painful life events, Cheryl Strayed decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail through California and Oregon. This book is her account of that journey, the difficulties and triumphs along the way, her thoughts about her past and her future, the fellow hikers she meets and her long passages of solitary hiking.

Looking back on this book, I have mixed feelings about it. I didn't actually take to the 'personal journey' aspect - despite Strayed's openness, I found the details of her ...more

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