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A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green

53 reviews

jenarae's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, Police brutality, Car accident, and Outing

acepersephone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

If you need a book series to make you feel a little more human again... these are the books. Firstly, what an interesting way to craft a story after the ending of the first book (no spoilers) but wow, that's how you do it. Hank Green is an expert when it comes to navigating social media fame and implores you to be a little more introspective about how you use social media, how you engage and view creators, how creators are flawed and human and deserving of growth and change (as we all are), but also speaks critically of how fame and power can corrupt. In my opinion, this is one of the best modern sci-fi stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction and Gun violence

Minor: Racism

corriejn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction, Gore, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Racism and Vomit

trickphoenix's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Racism

amobrien's review against another edition

adventurous reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

adelal's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

maybe I do believe there’s still hope for humanity

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Kidnapping

Moderate: Gun violence and Vomit

Minor: Biphobia, Gore, Racism, Sexism, and Outing

cheye13's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Highly recommend the audiobook.

I think the first book had to do a lot of unfortunate fame- and internet-related groundwork to make this book possible, so for those who felt let down by An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, I urge you to continue with this sequel. I liked the first one fine, but this one is indeed remarkable.

I'm a sucker for an ensemble cast, and the plot offers a lot of insight into current affairs. Occasionally a bit too close for comfort – akin to reading 1984 in 1984, I imagine. A timely and skillfully executed science fiction story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gun violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Racism, Violence, Vomit, and Kidnapping

Not explicitly police brutality, but a scene with a police altercation may be upsetting. Some dicussions of and/or conflations of reality vs virtual reality may be upsetting.

lara_r's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Death and Gun violence

lily1304's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I did NOT want to like this book as much as I did. I was skeptical, and then I was totally sucked in. I love that the sci-fi plot is SO absurd, and yet pieces of it are so familiar. Yeah, Altus is a very obvious metaphor for social media and this book is really just Hank Green's soapbox - the plot is a vehicle for the philosophy. But it's a really fun soapbox, and Hank's ideas are fascinating even if I don't always agree. I'm looking forward to rereading it eventually.

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but the book's philosophy tries to yell "humanism!" while the plot yells "cosmological dualism!", and I'm not sure how I feel about it - it certainly contains theological ideas and metaphors even though Hank is an atheist. I also actually don't love

how much Carl is explained in detail - I liked how mysterious Carl was in the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Vomit

Frequent descriptions of derealization and dissociation

samchase112's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

People will just share the things that confirm their ideology, and those things will always exist. Our reality isn't about what's real, it's about what we pay attention to.

This is not a book about aliens or science --- it's a book about community, power, compassion, and how humanity uses and abuses the tools we have created in order to manipulate those things. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is deeply weird, yet profoundly true. I want to go back and highlight about 65% of Hank's words. It is obvious this is all coming from a place of caring and social media/celebrity experience; as well as the human experience we can all relate to. I cannot recommend this book and its insanely relevant messages enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Stalking, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit, Grief, and Outing