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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
57 reviews
hnagarne's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
alyssa_s10's review
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Child death
Minor: Cancer
sxndaze's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Death
Minor: Cancer
merle_bookdragon's review
5.0
A selection of the things that I learned while reading this book:
- you should never predict the end of the world, you will almost certainly be wrong
- the tail of Halley's comet extends more than sixty million miles through space
- are conditioning systems in many buildings are biased to cater to men's temperature preferences
- basically all penicillin in the world descends from a mold found on a cantaloupe (and the scientists ate it after scraping off the mold)
- lawn maintenance creates more carbon dioxide than the lawns can capture
- Monopoly was actually invented by a woman
Before starting this book officially I had already read a single chapter of it about a year ago, the one titled "Auld Lang Syne." I had actually never actively heard of the song (though I am sure I had heard it before passively in a movie or something similar) and I found it so beautiful that I listened to it on repeat and then did a university assignment on it. I too would like to give Auld Lang Syne five stars.
Each first edition book of this title was signed by John Green. He made a video about this on the Youtube channel he shares with his brother Hank, explaining that his signature didn't make books worth more because by now, he has signed so many of them. However, I would like to claim an exception to this in this very instance. While every single book of this first edition was supposed to have a signature, mine has not. Thus, by NOT having a signature I would actually argue that my first edition of this book is worth more than the other ones. Oh how the tables have tabled. I give this book five stars.
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Grief, Death, and Child death
Minor: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders
mandaraffe's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Animal death, Grief, Medical content, Racism, Terminal illness, Cancer, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts
jodunn_'s review
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Cancer
readandfindout's review
4.5
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 5 stars
Graphic: Mental illness, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Antisemitism, and Bullying
Minor: Cancer
bujo_bellel's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Animal death
Minor: Cancer
mollywill's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: War and Cancer
caseythereader's review against another edition
5.0
- 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.
Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Animal death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Vomit, and Mental illness