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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

17 reviews

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

 - Honestly, who gave John Green the right? Who let him make me experience the fullness of the human condition via audiobook?
- So many essays in this book had me thinking, oh this will be silly. Rating the Disney Hall of Presidents? This will be a laugh. Yes, but then he'll take a roundabout through a seemingly unrelated anecdote and suddenly you're crying while commuting to work.
- I do think a lot of the power of this book comes from the fact that Green wrote much of it during the early stages of the pandemic, and he frequently references that in the text. But it also adds more layers to the essays, helping to bring our current moment into the context of the whole of human history (whether or not that makes you feel better about the state of things...I'm not sure).
- I do recommend the audiobook for this, as Green puts so much emotion into his reading. Plus, you must hear the call of the extinct bird included in one of the essays. I hear the print version has additional notes, though, so I'll be checking that out as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Animal death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Vomit, and Mental illness

astridrv's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

Thanks John I cried a bunch, underlined a fuckton of quotes, and feel strangely proud of John to have come all the way to this book. For anyone who needs a reminder that sustained, caring, and hopeful attention is the only thing that matters, really.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, and Death

tyyne's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This waxed and waned but had many beautiful moments and interesting facts I’ll be thinking about for a while.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

scruffie's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I could hear John's voice in my head while reading this book. Simultaneously sad and anxious and hopeful, it felt very comforting to me; exactly what I needed right now. Medium-paced most of the time, but also slow-paced, on occasion.

Probably like others before me, I give the Anthropocene Reviewed five stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Body horror

Moderate: Antisemitism and Terminal illness

Minor: Vomit, Slavery, Colonisation, Islamophobia, Drug use, and War

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad

5.0

the irony of leaving a 5 star scale review on a book that has so much commentary on the 5 star scale is not lost on me, and initially I didn't want to review it for that reason, but I loved it so much that I felt like I should tell you all that. My relationship with John Green as an author goes back almost 10 years. I've always loved his books, his Tumblr posts, and to borrow a line from TFIOS, I would read his grocery lists. Through his fiction he has always captured humanity through such a beautiful and sometimes ugly lense and so when I found out he was coming out with essays on the human condition, I was signed up immediately. It did exactly what I thought it would do. It brought me comfort, made me cry, made me laugh...specifically the chapters "Auld Lang Syne" and "Sycamore Tree" really got me. He reviews things that seem trivial like Dr. Pepper and then a chapter later he's talking about the meaning of life itself. I've really never read anything like this and at the same time I feel like I've read this before because the person who wrote it seems so familiar to me.

For its insight, it's softness in this rough time, and for keeping me company when I can't sleep at night, I give John Green's the anthropocene reviewed 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Genocide, Chronic illness, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Antisemitism, Bullying, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal death

lou_o_donnell's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Antisemitism, Bullying, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

beccaruthe's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Grief, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, and Child death