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kyngret's review
4.0
I read this as a recommendation from a friend, and was *super* skeptical at first when I began. I hesitate on how much I want to comment about it, given there's much more going on than what one may expect at first glance and I don't want to spoil it. So I suppose mild spoilers from this point on?
It seemed to have all the hallmarks of one big rant against the kids-these-days-Millennials (a group of which I am smack-dab in the middle, having been born in 1989), and I am so sick of that rhetoric I nearly didn't continue past the first chapter. However, I am SO GLAD I gave it a chance and read all the way to the end. It is so much more than that and actually changed my perspective on some matters (aptly, the part on one's perspective vs. another's).
One anecdote I wish to add, I couldn't help but laugh during the "Murderer" chapter. I have a friend who is a therapist at a prison and she says that, in her experience, the murderers are actually some of the nicest people she deals with. Of course those are the second-degree "crimes of passion" murderers, not so much the big famous first-degree murderers who love the attention and notoriety as is mentioned in the book.
It seemed to have all the hallmarks of one big rant against the kids-these-days-Millennials (a group of which I am smack-dab in the middle, having been born in 1989), and I am so sick of that rhetoric I nearly didn't continue past the first chapter. However, I am SO GLAD I gave it a chance and read all the way to the end. It is so much more than that and actually changed my perspective on some matters (aptly, the part on one's perspective vs. another's).
One anecdote I wish to add, I couldn't help but laugh during the "Murderer" chapter. I have a friend who is a therapist at a prison and she says that, in her experience, the murderers are actually some of the nicest people she deals with. Of course those are the second-degree "crimes of passion" murderers, not so much the big famous first-degree murderers who love the attention and notoriety as is mentioned in the book.
claben's review against another edition
5.0
An essay in the true and original sense of the world- a complex and thoughtful ramble through a world of sweeping psychological pronouncements and ad hoc diagnosis, probing and pushing at the edges of the widespread fear that we live in uniquely self-centered age to find a pattern of much different and older fears underneath.
8little_paws's review against another edition
4.0
This slim book packs a lot in--it's about how we react to narcissism and if it's really healthy for our society to treat narcissism in this way. At first I thought it was a bit meandering, but I felt the author wrapped it up well in the end. I'll be revisiting this one again, for sure.
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