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jenarae's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Blood, Death, Vomit, Classism, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, and Violence
Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Police brutality, Sexual content, and Outing
corriejn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Confinement, Body horror, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Addiction, Gore, Gun violence, and Violence
Minor: Vomit and Racism
youreawizardjerry's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Minor: Racism, Vomit, Kidnapping, Blood, and Death
adelal's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Confinement and Kidnapping
Moderate: Vomit and Gun violence
Minor: Gore, Racism, Sexism, Outing, and Biphobia
cheye13's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
I think the first book had to do a lot of unfortunate fame- and internet-related groundwork to make this book possible, so for those who felt let down by An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, I urge you to continue with this sequel. I liked the first one fine, but this one is indeed remarkable.
I'm a sucker for an ensemble cast, and the plot offers a lot of insight into current affairs. Occasionally a bit too close for comfort – akin to reading 1984 in 1984, I imagine. A timely and skillfully executed science fiction story.
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content
Moderate: Cursing, Kidnapping, Racism, Violence, and Vomit
Not explicitly police brutality, but a scene with a police altercation may be upsetting. Some dicussions of and/or conflations of reality vs virtual reality may be upsetting.lara_r's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Confinement, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Addiction, and Racism
Minor: Gun violence and Death
c95newman's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Following April's death the gang is attempting to pick up the pieces of their former lives and learn to live without her. But then they start getting mysterious books that seem to know exactly what they are going to do, and has some clues and advice for them. Cue an adventure with a few 20 somethings, a cyborg, a monkey, and a potato plant.
I REALLY loved this book. One thing I think Hank Green does super well is mix his huge life-changing stories with a bit of whimsy. It reminds me a bit of hitchhiker's guide. And it makes the story more fun in the heavy parts.
Each chapter of the book changes the narrator, and is titled with the name of the narrator. I like how we get the thoughts of all of the flawed characters, and I really resonate with Andy's character development. I feel like his flaws are easy to criticize from the outside, but are way more relatable when you see his inner monologs. I wasnt a huge fan of Carl's chapters, mostly because they were extremely confusing and while obviously Carl's powers are not real, Hank Green still tried to explain them in a scientific way that didn't make sense to me as a non scientist.
It focused really heavily on fame, the power of social media, and society. I really like how the themes carried over from the last book.
The queer representation in this book was perfect. Its really hard to find a book with queer characters that are characterized well and thoughtfully, especially by a (presumably) not queer person. Just like the first book, the relationships were realistic and the queer characters had traits other than "queer".
Graphic: Confinement and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Vomit
Several characters loose control over their bodies or minds. Its a key plot pointlily1304's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but the book's philosophy tries to yell "humanism!" while the plot yells "cosmological dualism!", and I'm not sure how I feel about it - it certainly contains theological ideas and metaphors even though Hank is an atheist. I also actually don't love
Graphic: Gun violence and Violence
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Vomit
Frequent descriptions of derealization and dissociationnoodletheriddle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, and Vomit
samchase112's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
People will just share the things that confirm their ideology, and those things will always exist. Our reality isn't about what's real, it's about what we pay attention to.
This is not a book about aliens or science --- it's a book about community, power, compassion, and how humanity uses and abuses the tools we have created in order to manipulate those things. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is deeply weird, yet profoundly true. I want to go back and highlight about 65% of Hank's words. It is obvious this is all coming from a place of caring and social media/celebrity experience; as well as the human experience we can all relate to. I cannot recommend this book and its insanely relevant messages enough.
Graphic: Kidnapping and Confinement
Moderate: Racism, Violence, Stalking, Police brutality, Gun violence, Cursing, Blood, Addiction, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Vomit, Outing, and Grief