Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

55 reviews

virgcole398's review

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Medical content, Death, and Grief

If you’re an overthinker like me, you’ll love this book

danasaur's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

4.5

Particularly excellent as an audiobook!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Alcohol, Cancer, Vomit, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Drug use, and Death

sarahina_b's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexism, Emotional abuse, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Animal death, Medical content, Grief, Xenophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

dev921's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Child death, Cancer, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

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

jes312's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

I loved the method of using ideas/things to write a memoir. The personal element/frankness about mental illness drew me in. A little quote heavy at times, but Green acknowledges it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Grief

Moderate: Medical content

bbygirl21's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.0

I was thoroughly surprised by this book. I went in open minded, but I fully expected not to enjoy this book. I don't usually read nonfiction books. I don't go out of my way to find nonfiction books and beyond that general hesitation with nonfiction, the premise of the book didn't really interest me all that much when going into it. But I surprisingly really liked it. I did start to feel a little bored with the book near the end of it. But overall I really enjoyed it and would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, War, Confinement, Genocide, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Grief, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Animal death, and Antisemitism

julianairving's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical content and Death

bek_p87's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

How can I rate a book that made me cry several times, laugh out loud, feel intense grief and immense hope, question humanity's existence and my role in it, anything other than 5 stars?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Medical content

erin22's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Beautiful, thoughtful, informative regarding new subjects and insightful regarding familiar ones. A excellent review of Green’s collection of reviews from the modern age.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Mental illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders