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4.44 AVERAGE
4.44 AVERAGE
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I want 8 more of these
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A series of essays. Some of them are very touching, and the emotional impact of these are great, but a significant chunk of them don't hit particularly hard.
Fine for what it is, but I'm not sure how much I'd recommend it.
Fine for what it is, but I'm not sure how much I'd recommend it.
oh to review a book of reviews. super interesting the melding of facts, anecdotes and the like is just yes
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Read it mostly while shitting. Some chapters were great. Some chapters were meh.
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An absolute pleasure of a book to read!
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I picked up this book because I have requested John Green’s other non-fiction book, Everything is Tuburculosis from my local library and it is currently on hold. I thought, ‘I’ll bide my time with this book in the meantime.’ And so, I’ll fully admit that I started reading this book without knowing what it was. Which was a mistake.
Unless you are already an avid fan of John Green as a person, or the vlogbrothers, or listen to any of his podcasts, or are in any other way personally invested in John Green’s actual life or opinions, I cannot recommend this book.
The Anthropocene Reviewed comprises a series of essays written about seemingly random subjects that are at least pertinent to the author, if not to the reader. He then waxes poetic about said subject for a page or five, maybe going into the history of the subject before explaining how the subject changed his worldview or made his life better or worse… and then he gives it a rating out of five.
I will admit that some of the essays did touch me or interest me, but then I doubt you could read almost 300 pages worth of essays and not find at least one that catches your interest. Mostly I appreciated the historical bits, but the history was completely overshadowed by the emotion. I found the language to be overly flowery at times, but I suppose that should be expected from an emotional author used to writing fiction. The lesson was not lost on me; that there is plenty to love and lose and no end to wondrous things on this Earth… it’s just not what I was looking for (and also kind of heavy handed if I’m being honest). Maybe that’s my fault for being in the wrong mindset for love and optimism. Maybe its the author’s fault for unabashedly writing about his view of the world from a place of privilege and I just can’t relate. Hard to say.
In any case, I won’t be re-reading this and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who is not already a big John Green fan. I bumped the score up just a little as recompense for my own ignorance on what the book actually is, but in the end, I give The Anthropocene Reviewedtwo and a half three stars.
Unless you are already an avid fan of John Green as a person, or the vlogbrothers, or listen to any of his podcasts, or are in any other way personally invested in John Green’s actual life or opinions, I cannot recommend this book.
The Anthropocene Reviewed comprises a series of essays written about seemingly random subjects that are at least pertinent to the author, if not to the reader. He then waxes poetic about said subject for a page or five, maybe going into the history of the subject before explaining how the subject changed his worldview or made his life better or worse… and then he gives it a rating out of five.
I will admit that some of the essays did touch me or interest me, but then I doubt you could read almost 300 pages worth of essays and not find at least one that catches your interest. Mostly I appreciated the historical bits, but the history was completely overshadowed by the emotion. I found the language to be overly flowery at times, but I suppose that should be expected from an emotional author used to writing fiction. The lesson was not lost on me; that there is plenty to love and lose and no end to wondrous things on this Earth… it’s just not what I was looking for (and also kind of heavy handed if I’m being honest). Maybe that’s my fault for being in the wrong mindset for love and optimism. Maybe its the author’s fault for unabashedly writing about his view of the world from a place of privilege and I just can’t relate. Hard to say.
In any case, I won’t be re-reading this and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who is not already a big John Green fan. I bumped the score up just a little as recompense for my own ignorance on what the book actually is, but in the end, I give The Anthropocene Reviewed