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this book would be the ideal gateway for someone just getting into non-fiction. blending essay writing with fragments of memoir, john green reviews a series of random aspects of the anthropocene (the geological age in which humans have had a substantial impact on the planet), from diet dr pepper to the game monopoly to the discovery of penicillin. the review format is an effective and entertaining way for john green to examine the complexities of the human experience, and i learned a lot of fun facts from this.
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The Anthropocene Reviewed is a collection of essays on the human experience. Not a perfect book, but one that will stick with me as I remember both the history of human ingenuity and the ways in which we are all connected.
Well, this book could have been a podcast... Wait.
I think hearing these essays when they came out as podcasts was probably the correct way of consuming them. I listened to them on audio book and because John Green is quite the slow talker, i was listening on 1.5x, which meants I was feeding these grand poetic and/or philosophical musings into my brain at a speed that was mainly exhausting. I felt like he had about three different ideas that he was musing about, 1) isn't the world so grand and vast and we are so small, and yet life is so meaningful 2) isn't life so short and we will all die, and yet life is so meaningful, 3) isnt the world and humanity so cruel and we are destroying the earth and all life on it and are we not still staying hopeful?
And that over and over and over again.
I feel like most of the stuff he talked about I have heard before or thought before because I have a basic introspective sense, though I obviously don't know if perhaps some of these ideas were popularised by the podcast and then I consumed that consequently in the form of tumblr screenshots.
I liked some of the science or history he explained and I liked when he was quoting other people but I liked very few of Green's own thoughts and I felt myself rolling my eyes more and more as the book went on. Even though I think that poetry and meaning is found in the mundane, often times his musing read as so incredibly forced and, I'm gonna use the word, pretentious, I mostly finished the book because I had nothing better to listen to at the time.
I think hearing these essays when they came out as podcasts was probably the correct way of consuming them. I listened to them on audio book and because John Green is quite the slow talker, i was listening on 1.5x, which meants I was feeding these grand poetic and/or philosophical musings into my brain at a speed that was mainly exhausting. I felt like he had about three different ideas that he was musing about, 1) isn't the world so grand and vast and we are so small, and yet life is so meaningful 2) isn't life so short and we will all die, and yet life is so meaningful, 3) isnt the world and humanity so cruel and we are destroying the earth and all life on it and are we not still staying hopeful?
And that over and over and over again.
I feel like most of the stuff he talked about I have heard before or thought before because I have a basic introspective sense, though I obviously don't know if perhaps some of these ideas were popularised by the podcast and then I consumed that consequently in the form of tumblr screenshots.
I liked some of the science or history he explained and I liked when he was quoting other people but I liked very few of Green's own thoughts and I felt myself rolling my eyes more and more as the book went on. Even though I think that poetry and meaning is found in the mundane, often times his musing read as so incredibly forced and, I'm gonna use the word, pretentious, I mostly finished the book because I had nothing better to listen to at the time.
It was nice and fun but also not engaging enough for me right now
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absolutely amazing! i spend almost a year reading this book because i really wanted to spread out each section and savor the wisdom from each and every review throughout this book. i’ve always adored john green as a kid and this book really felt like a guiding bridge to adulthood. i thoroughly enjoyed getting to understand not only his insights on his own life but exactly how he reached each conclusion he came to. so beautiful and couldn’t recommend it more!!
It’s 4 and 1/2 stars. Nothing is perfect. ;) genuinely though, I really loved this book.
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