Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

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

9 reviews

spacekee's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Colonisation

illgiveyouahint's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō  story made me bawl my eyes out. I think I'm gonna have to buy the physical copy so that I can reread it at some point and highlight favourite passages. But also I think it's great to hear an audiobook of a book of essay by the author himself. With fiction it can feel weird since they're narrating their characters but with essays they're narrating their own thoughts which I think is nice. 

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Content Warnings

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

franzi_'s review against another edition

funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Genocide, War, Death, Alcohol, and Colonisation

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

 - Honestly, who gave John Green the right? Who let him make me experience the fullness of the human condition via audiobook?
- So many essays in this book had me thinking, oh this will be silly. Rating the Disney Hall of Presidents? This will be a laugh. Yes, but then he'll take a roundabout through a seemingly unrelated anecdote and suddenly you're crying while commuting to work.
- I do think a lot of the power of this book comes from the fact that Green wrote much of it during the early stages of the pandemic, and he frequently references that in the text. But it also adds more layers to the essays, helping to bring our current moment into the context of the whole of human history (whether or not that makes you feel better about the state of things...I'm not sure).
- I do recommend the audiobook for this, as Green puts so much emotion into his reading. Plus, you must hear the call of the extinct bird included in one of the essays. I hear the print version has additional notes, though, so I'll be checking that out as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Animal death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Vomit, and Mental 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

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

samvansam's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

earth loving earth.

i give the anthropocene reviewed five stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

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

elissareadsbooks's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

i laughed. i cried. i felt like when you spend five hours having deep conversation with a good friend, come home happy and exhausted, and collapse on the couch to take a nap. this was so special and personal and my heart feels like it cracked open a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol, Antisemitism, Colonisation, and Cancer

Minor: Xenophobia