Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

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

23 reviews

mandaraffe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death, Grief, Medical content, Racism, Terminal illness, Cancer, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

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

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

anniefwrites's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

 This book accomplishes so much. It's imbued with the same care and thoughtfulness that Green has used to make YouTube videos for many years. He captures a sliver of the human experience yet showcases its beautiful, terrible, ephemeral nature. When the big things in life were overwhelming me, this book focusing on small things and small experiences was a welcome respite. I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys learning about both important events and useless trivia, to anyone struggling to get back into reading (the essays are short and easily absorbed), and to anyone who is tired of toxic positivity when they are feeling down. This book felt like someone sitting beside you when you're hurting and just being there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Child death, Death, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

ntvenessa's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

A scrapbook of memories reflecting on the life of one, John Green, in the modern world, the Anthropocene. Indeed, it is phenomenon forward, and analyses our human relationship toward such phenomena. It shows that the distance between person and subject is not so distinct as we imagine, and that our experiences of a thing, contribute to the thing, as well as vice versa. It is about the density and quality of connection hewn in the modern world. The writing is deeply introspective and generous, and the themes broadly applicable to all. The essays capture the experiences of events spread across the spectrum of a life well lived, and indeed still living. Ultimately it is a beautiful, hopeful read, and personally my favourite Green novel. I rate The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Antisemitism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, and War

spaceraspberry's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

Minor: Antisemitism

libbyhb's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

 This book captured the exact energy I loved so much in John's videos when I first discovered Vlogbrothers and watched their 2007 backlog. I really appreciate the way John approaches nonfiction writing, especially the way he mixes information and emotion for whatever topic. Honestly the entire time I was like, this would be a great podcast - and then at the end I found out it IS a podcast and has been for three years. Whoops! But that's one of the things I liked best about the flow of the writing - the way it sounded like it could be read out loud really well. My favorite essays were Googling Strangers, Piggly Wiggly, and The Notes App.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Chronic illness, and Grief

Moderate: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

erniedresser's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Mental illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Grief

samsterina's review

challenging funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is a forever re-read for me. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, and Mental illness

Majority of the content is great for all ages, but there are certain essays (Small Pox Vaccine, Harvey, Googling Strangers) that one should perhaps tread carefully because of discussion of child death, and pain. Green navigates these masterfully though.