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

3 reviews

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

2.75

Formatting would have benefited greatly with the use of footnotes, which in turn would have helped with pacing and flow.

I found myself reading an essay or two about topics I had varying levels of interest in, and on to the next essay I would read the title and often put the book down because I had had enough of the meandering stream of consciousness associations for that session.

There were some things that I found value in, but it wasn’t really my cup of tea.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, War, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, Deportation, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Classism, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Child death, Chronic illness, and Mental illness

ssgcedits's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Green's books always leave me feeling a little more hopeful. His wit and lyricism are even more evident in essay form than in a novel. There are as many funny, wacky facts in this book as you would expect from a celebrity nerd.
My only criticisms are that for a book that claims to review the Anthropocene it is obscenely American in perspective (despite a couple of essays being on non-American topics/stories); and that, if you've followed John Green for a few years, even if you don't listen to the Anthropocene podcast, a lot of these stories will be at least familiar to your ears.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Terminal illness, War, Child death, and Death

phobosm's review

informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

The audiobook is a pleasure to listen to. Audio clippings of near-extinct birds and a singing John Green. Way too saturated with disease and pandemic ramblings scattered throughout the book, got stale eventually.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, and Drug use