Reddit reviews Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

I'd recommend reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer before you do anything. It's a real-life story of a guy who really did go to Alaska to live in nature. He died fairly quickly. Wild by Cheryl Strayed is another book worth reading.

Living remotely in nature is great, and I get the appeal. But learn everything you possibly can about wilderness survival, and definitely take classes with other people, so you can have input from real experts on what you're missing. And read about where others went wrong, because nature is unforgiving and brutal. It doesn't care about you. It gives no shits about you finding your inner peace/strength/whatever. If you mess up, a painful death awaits. So if you're really going for it, be as smart and prepared as possible.

*Also see a doc about getting vaccinations. Tetanus is no joke, man.

Nope. It was this one

In Wild she backpacks and survives the Pacific Crest Trail with very little.

Super girl power book-buying trip today - I guess I'm in need of some girl time or something. Came away with:

• Hard Choices, which has been on my to-read list for awhile - picked it up, in hard cover, for $15! What a steal!
  
• The Enchanted: A Novel, which was my "never heard of it, but I touched it and now I have to buy it" option - it sounds pretty neat, and I'm pretty excited to read it.
  
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which, yes, is based on that movie with whatsername. I love introspective self-exploration stories, so I think this will be a great read. I'm sad though, because I didn't pick up the copy with the original cover art - they only had the copy with the movie art :/
  
  What are you currently reading? Anything you'd recommend to someone like, oh, I dunno - me?

I really enjoyed "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed.
https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Trail/dp/0307476073

I'm sure your friend has access to all the recovery literature he can handle, and more. I wouldn't even go there, if you are considering it.

I might go for some light entertainment.

Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods is about hiking the Appalachian Trail, it's an easy read and it's hilariously funny.

Cheryl Strayed's Wild is about hiking the PCT and is also a fun read.

For novels, I have to recommend A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, and Middlesex by Jeffery Eugendes. They are both big huge sprawling books that are also super enjoyable and easy to read. (So they are not a new Moby Dick.) I've never read them, but I hear the Lord of the Rings books are completely absorbing too. They would take up a huge chunk of his time.

You might also send some comfort clothes. Some warm socks or slippers or sweatpants or a hoodie, something like that. (I'm a huge fan of LL Bean's sweats, they are super comfy and well made.) Also maybe an iTunes gift card if he's got an iphone or ipod.

Out of curiosity, what's the scifi book you're sending? I'm a big scifi fan too.

Hey! You may want to check out this book. It seems totally up your alley. It's a memoir by a woman who dropped everything and hiked the PCT, published in 2012, has gotten a ton of acclaim:

http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Vintage/dp/0307476073

Wild by Cheryl Strayed is a perfect follow up piece for Krakauer. Haunting, humble, and abrasively honest at times.

In addition, the other recommendations (South, The Lost City of Z, Walden on Wheels) are great reads as well.

You should check out Wild. It's the memoir of a 22 year old woman's solo PCT hike.

Travel. Hike multi-month trails. Buy a boat, sail the oceans. Plenty of places to go/things to see.

I always liked the idea of a long solo hike. No day to day bullshit - just focusing on getting from point A to B... allows you to re-examine life from a quasi-removed position.

I would really like to read [Wild] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307476073/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1KW5XWA99ZFZK&coliid=IEGUJUFTLXKGY). I love the outdoors and real life stories of adventure and travel.

Best book I read in the past year would be Beloved, which I read in my Women's Literature class.

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Most recently, Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I really expected it to be overwrought, a cliche "how I found myself" story, right out of the genre of Eat, Pray, Love. It was so much more. I would recommend it to anyone, but especially to young women.

[Wild, by Cheryl Strayed] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307476073?pc_redir=1406193150&robot_redir=1)

Wild by Cheryl Stayed (http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Trail/dp/0307476073) and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Trail/dp/0307476073) come to mind. Sorry for the long links, I'm on mobile.

Two fine books about hiking the PCT are The Cactus Eaters, by Dan White, and Wild, by Cheryl Strayed.

Ooh I love reading but I've never owned any kind of ereader. I'd love a used one 😊

Cowabunga!

I have a hard time picking my favorite anything so here is a potential favorite of mine

You don't start jogging around your neighborhood and then do the PCT.
Some people do it's not as hard as you guys want to believe.

Still Alice by Lisa Genova


Wild by Cheryl Strayed


Room by Emma Donoghue


Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

To help her create, balance, and contextualize all the new relationships she'll be forming in college: Sex God by Rob Bell and The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Both of these books will affect how a person approaches relationships with family, friends, and lovers. Can't recommend these enough.)

To encourage some introspection: Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Guilty pleasure: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn or The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson or The Secret History by Donna Tartt

And to promote the journey of becoming her own person: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and On the Road by Jack Kerouac