Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

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

14 reviews

samchase112's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective

5.0

Part memoir, part essay, John Green's collection of reviews is startlingly profound and deeply thoughtful. There is something for everyone: history, biology, literature, pop culture, sports. I have realized that John Green is just...my kind of guy. We share many of the same interests, many of the same dreams, the same fears. So hearing him detail his anxieties and the things he finds joy in through this carefully constructed narrative was just so damn interesting and engrossing.

Non-fiction John Green is undeniably superior to fictional John Green.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Child death

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

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad

5.0

the irony of leaving a 5 star scale review on a book that has so much commentary on the 5 star scale is not lost on me, and initially I didn't want to review it for that reason, but I loved it so much that I felt like I should tell you all that. My relationship with John Green as an author goes back almost 10 years. I've always loved his books, his Tumblr posts, and to borrow a line from TFIOS, I would read his grocery lists. Through his fiction he has always captured humanity through such a beautiful and sometimes ugly lense and so when I found out he was coming out with essays on the human condition, I was signed up immediately. It did exactly what I thought it would do. It brought me comfort, made me cry, made me laugh...specifically the chapters "Auld Lang Syne" and "Sycamore Tree" really got me. He reviews things that seem trivial like Dr. Pepper and then a chapter later he's talking about the meaning of life itself. I've really never read anything like this and at the same time I feel like I've read this before because the person who wrote it seems so familiar to me.

For its insight, it's softness in this rough time, and for keeping me company when I can't sleep at night, I give John Green's the anthropocene reviewed 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Genocide, Chronic illness, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Antisemitism, Bullying, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal 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