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strangelyfamiliar's review against another edition
4.0
This is an intelligent and insightful read about what it really means to be an adult in today's world. Doyle has done a load of research into everything from property to relationships to parenthood to old age. I want my parents to read it just so I can point to certain parts and say "See! I'm not the only one who thinks like this!" because Doyle articulates it better than I ever could.
But at the same time, I appreciate the way she argues against the us vs. them mentality we all have when it comes to millennials and baby boomers. Doyle spends a lot of time looking at how things like property ownership, job redundancies and single life affect people once they reach retirement age, and I found it pretty eye-opening.
Definitely worth reading, especially if you're anxious about reaching certain adult milestones.
But at the same time, I appreciate the way she argues against the us vs. them mentality we all have when it comes to millennials and baby boomers. Doyle spends a lot of time looking at how things like property ownership, job redundancies and single life affect people once they reach retirement age, and I found it pretty eye-opening.
Definitely worth reading, especially if you're anxious about reaching certain adult milestones.
bookedandborrowed's review
3.0
If someone had emailed me a link to these chapters published online as separate essays, I would have read them and enjoyed them. But this is a book, and my standards for print publications are different. I am exactly the demographic Adult Fantasy is written about and for, but I didn’t connect to it. Maybe if you’re a total normie living in the outer burbs and feeling a bit stifled by convention you’d get something out of it, but in my inner city bubble we have well and truly moved on from the marriage/mortgage/babies trifecta as being something to aim for or fight against. Get married, don’t get married, who cares?
polyreader's review
4.0
A brilliantly articulated collection of essays about the elusiveness of identifying as an adult, in a voice that is particularly relatable for millennials.
mw2k's review
3.0
You can view this book in two different ways. One: as a work of a disaffected millennial who overthinks everything, or two: a poignant tract of non-conformism by a young woman who alternately (that's in "alternate") sees herself as a square peg in a societal round hole and then feels a need to adapt to the harsh, mutable world she's part of.
That's this book's major problem. The author doesn't know exactly what she wants this treatise to be - an autobiography? A guidebook for millennials? A bunch of hand-wringing? It's all of this and more, and while it's an entertaining work presented in lively, crisp language, the actual message is a turgid muddle.
Maybe that's the point, I don't know.
That's this book's major problem. The author doesn't know exactly what she wants this treatise to be - an autobiography? A guidebook for millennials? A bunch of hand-wringing? It's all of this and more, and while it's an entertaining work presented in lively, crisp language, the actual message is a turgid muddle.
Maybe that's the point, I don't know.