Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

What a ride. Emotional more than entertaining, not that a memoir sets out to entertain, but there are a number of moments that make it clear why someone saw how this could become a film -  that I don't think I'll ever watch. The massive amount of hype surrounding this book means perhaps that it was doomed not to live up to overblown expectations. As I more often find with graphic novel style memoirs, I think this works best as an exercise for the author, a necessary step in their journey, to have done the walk, to reflect back on the walk, and their earlier life. 
Hard to quantify, but I'd guess this is an even split between flashing back to the moments that led her to the trail, and on trail experiences. 
The truth is that while Strayed's  unwise choices are different from my unwise choices, I really didn't enjoy listening to a person being lost in their twenties. Maybe that's just the default state of being in that decade but it was kind of agonizing to find myself even at a remove, back in that kind of head space. I have to wonder how many truly wild moments are the result of poor planning on the part of an understably young, inexperienced, out of sorts person. 
I definitely could have done without the extended horse euthanasia by gun scene. 

⚠️death of a parent, drug use, injury, animal death, domestic abuse