Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

14 reviews

aileen_macalister's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

The book's main thread follows Naomi Klein and another writer Naomi Wolf, who's career path was so similar to Klein's for such a long period that the two are often confused. However, Wolf's life takes a dramatic shift to the right and Klein finds herself constantly "called out" for Wolf's views.

This leads Klein to look into the far right and conspiracy theories while also analysing references to doppelgangers throughout literature and history.

It is a fascinating window into the "mirror world" as Klein refers to it. It took me a couple of chapters to get into the book as she has to spend a good amount of time setting the scene and describing the similarities of herself and Wolf before she can get to the good stuff but once she gets into it the story takes you on an journey through this mirror world from Anti-vaxers to Palestine and everything in-between.

For me, listening to it as an audiobook made it so much easier to take in.

Overall it's an exploration into what it means to be a human in today's world and what "the self" really means.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Violence, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

siebensommer's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.25

at times it feels like it's losing itself in so many different themes (all very important and well-researched) and then you get to the end and all comes together.. oof

in fact it makes a certain kind of sick sense that our era of peak personal branding has coincided so precisely with an unprecedented crisis point for our shared home. the vast complex planetary crisis requires coordinated collective effort on an international scale. that may be theoretically possible, but it sure is daunting. far easier to master ourselves - the brand called you.

we did [change the discourse] but we appear to have done it at the precise moment when words and ideas underwent a radical currency devaluation

what is the alternative that is being offered on this side of the glass? do we have a plan for a world without sacrificial people? and does that plan feel credible, rooted in action?

we are not, and never were, selfmade. we are made and unmade by one another

hitler [...] was not the civilised democratic west's evil other, but its shadow, its doppelganger.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Genocide, Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

uranaishi's review

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Ableism, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Deportation

peckreadsbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

amachonis's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Classism

Minor: Rape

cerysl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aqtbenz's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

errie's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Genocide, Racism, Antisemitism, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

minniepauline's review

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

This is a brilliant book. Klein’s writing is accessible, well-researched and compassionate. It was a very tough read, emotionally, for me. But one I think I’m going to want to revisit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

oworthyfool's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation