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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
55 reviews
novella42's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness
Moderate: Grief and Chronic illness
basicbookstagrammer's review
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Medical content
marsspider42's review
4.0
This book will make you want to cry about things you have never before heard about. I think the audiobook version would be fantastic. Recommended to anyone who likes trivia and genuine love of the world.
Moderate: Mental illness and Medical content
takarakei's review against another edition
5.0
I give John Green's book 5 stars.
Graphic: Animal death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Mental illness, and Death
Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content
Minor: War, Slavery, Alcohol, Bullying, Cancer, and Antisemitism
Animal death -mari_library's review against another edition
4.0
This book feels like watching John Green on YouTube. It feels like a conversation with a friend. It's so incredibly intimate and yet knowledgeable. It's filled with panic-striking ideas and yet bubbling with optimism and logic.
When John Green discussed his anxiety, I felt seen and connected. I remember thinking, "Finally, someone gets it." I think that pretty much sums up my feelings about the book. John Green gets it. Not everything about this book is mind-blowing, but it is very human. And that's a good thing.
Graphic: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Medical content
illgiveyouahint's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Medical trauma, Self harm, Animal death, Colonisation, Mental illness, Grief, Chronic illness, Death, Classism, Confinement, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Suicide, Racism, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Slavery, Violence, War, and Vomit
emilyexley's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, and Medical content
hanz's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, and Grief
erosikessel's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death, and Alcohol
robynlynae's review
4.5
This book was refreshingly vulnerable and raw. It amazes me how Green can relate the most mundane day-to-day things to great existential ponderings in a way that make me feel so big and so small at the same time. On the surface, these reviews seem unconnected and even whimsical, but underneath it all this was a conversation about humanity and the experiences and emotions that connect us all.
I read this book slower than I would normally read a book and I feel like that is the perfect way to enjoy it. The essays are short and easy to read but I often felt I needed to put the book down after only a few and think on them for a while. Green has a way of writing about big and small things so that they feel the opposite. Much of this book centers on Green's experiences with mental illness and I connected with those passages most profoundly. I really appreciate how he is able to make something in my life that is so big and overwhelming feel simple. My mental health, which I struggle with and can sometimes feel insurmountable, is something that Green is able to parse out and show that it is, in fact, surmountable. In his examples of feeling so alone, I felt less so. Depression and loneliness was made small. Whispers and a dog's belly turned big.
There is a sly wit and humor generously sprinkled throughout that add levity to each essay and there were several times where I laughed out loud. It was wonderfully cathartic and I would recommend it to anyone who struggles with mental health, feeling small in this big world, or feeling any sort of affection for geese.
Moderate: Medical content and Mental illness
Minor: Death