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madisus's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Rape, Genocide, Xenophobia, and War
amachonis's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Antisemitism
Moderate: Racism, Classism, and Xenophobia
Minor: Rape
rissryann's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Misogyny, Gun violence, Ableism, Colonisation, Xenophobia, War, Genocide, Racism, Police brutality, Homophobia, and Antisemitism
Minor: Rape and Violence
oworthyfool's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Antisemitism, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gaslighting, Ableism, Sexism, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Genocide, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Hate crime, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, and Police brutality
madscientistcat's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Hate crime, Classism, and Antisemitism
Moderate: Islamophobia, Child death, and War
Minor: Slavery, Rape, Abortion, and Transphobia
Extensive discussion of various genocides and the holocaust specificallymads_jpg's review against another edition
4.25
While this is a very zeitgeisty book, I think it'll age better than others, as it serves almost as a history book mixed with memoir mixed with psychology.
Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Antisemitism
Moderate: Body shaming, Classism, Eating disorder, Chronic illness, Confinement, Mass/school shootings, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Genocide, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Colonisation, Racism, and War
Minor: Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, and Abortion
misha_ali's review against another edition
4.75
Honestly, I would describe this book as listening to your favourite professor giving a lecture about a subject and then carrying on talking about adjacent things and giving you lots to think about after it's over. In particular, I found Klein's thoughts on the historical status of Jews in the world and in Europe, the recurrence of genocides and them being a legacy of the world rather than unique in that time and those conditions, and then the search for a home in the same way that major world powers in the world today achieved that home state (occupation and genocide of the indigent population), really interesting and frames the conflict in a novel way for me.
Aside from that topic, Klein dives into the literal and metaphorical representations of doppelgangers in literature, and in life, and how we can use them to understand ourselves better. This leads to a truly fascinating set of connections that she posits in explaining why unexpected groups of people suddenly appear to veer so hard into right-wing conspiracy theories instead of more liberal views. Her thoughts on tying together the mindset of avoiding COVID without vaccinations leading into the idea of superiority of blood and the very specific (and possibly intentional by some bad actors in the right-wing arena) phrasing used are really interesting.
I keep overusing the word interesting in this review but that's honestly the word that comes to mind. This was a lot of really novel and interesting things to chew on about the state of the world today, including roping in thoughts on digital existence, personal brands, Palestine and Zionism, the conservative media, COVID deniers, antivaxxers, autism, and many other fascinating ideas. Klein does her research and makes some evocative points and even ties it in with the Other Naomi right at the end. Well done!
Minor: Rape and Sexual assault
eslsilver's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Ableism and Classism
Minor: Rape
bookswithbethx's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Genocide, Violence, Ableism, Colonisation, War, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Rape, Racism, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Misogyny, and Dementia
erint251's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Antisemitism and Violence
Minor: Eating disorder and Rape