Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

6 reviews

fiaharringbook's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death

imstephtacular's review

challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

This book is a banger! I am definitely the intended audience as a chronically online white female millennial existential overthinker with an English degree so bear that in mind when picking it up 

I was riveted by every section (the Taylor swift chapter particularly kicked me right in the gut) and I kept rereading quotes aloud to my coworkers, my husband, anyone who would listen because I was learning so much, things were making sense, and I was overwhelmed by the day to day machinations that actually gave scientific names ascribed to them 

Parts of this felt too cerebral and the language over my head so I simply allowed those to wash over me while I still retained the general ideas

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Medical content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Medical trauma

Minor: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Death of parent, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Genocide, War, Xenophobia, Alcohol, and Gun violence

jehansen127's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Toxic relationship

sdupont's review

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Amanda Montell writes nonfiction in such an engaging and thought provoking style. She will have you emotionally connecting to the psychology behind each topic. Amanda has an uncanny ability to invoke existential dread and hope within the same chapter. I devoured this book and definitely recommend it for fans of Cultish!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Emotional abuse

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

clarabooksit's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Racism

meganpbell's review

funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

What does our worship (or opposite) of Taylor Swift have to do with the Halo Effect? What does AI mean for our love of tactile work aka the IKEA Effect? In these essays on cognitive biases in our modern age, Cultish author Amanda Montell pulls together memoir, cultural criticism, and social science and blazes new neural pathways to identifying and understanding these “mental magic tricks” we pull on ourselves, to lively, accessible effect.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Toxic relationship