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Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

34 reviews

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

dmlb's review

dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Every chapter something to drop your jaw at, could be a historical reference of our times one day

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Antisemitism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

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rheagoveas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Racism and Sexism

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

katharina90's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

An interesting read that's particularly strong in its last few chapters where Naomi Klein illustrates the violent bigotry and genocidal tendencies inherent to Europe and its colonial projects.

The book is well written, covers a lot of ground and offers much food for thought. 

Trying to tie all of these topics back to the doppelganger motif at times feels like a stretch? I definitely lost the thread a few times but was captivated by Klein's meandering narrative nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Dementia and War

rissryann's review

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Wow.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Genocide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Colonisation, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Rape and Violence

ka_cam's review

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Interesting and reflective read on the self, personal and group identity, capitalism and conspiracy - I especially enjoyed the parts on autism, qanon, antisemitism and Palestine. Would recommend for anyone trying to process and understand our current moment, lots to chew on and discuss!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Antisemitism, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

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

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

 Naomi Klein, a Canadian author known for her social activism and her political analyses, has the misfortune to be mistaken for and confused with Naomi Wolf, a one time feminist turned conspiracy theorist. She has used this as a spur to explore the world Wolf inhabits and to consider why her doppelgänger might have made the choices she has. This is such an incredibly important book. It is all too easy to ignore the anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists, to remove them from our social media, cheer when they are deplatformed, and disengage from them in real life. Yet this leaves us with no real idea of what they are thinking, saying, planning and doing which makes us potentially vulnerable. And this loose grouping of at times strange bedmates does have some valid fears and concerns, even if they are not immediately obvious. A book like this is invaluable in bringing this “shadow world” into the light. I was impressed by the scope of this book, and by the way Klein blended introspective personal reflections with logical intellectual analysis. I appreciated the way she highlighted issues within mainstream society such as capitalist greed and corruption and the way these have contributed to the rise of conspiracy theorists. The book does have an American focus, but the issues Klein explores are not only relevant to but essential for democracies everywhere. Doppelgänger is a very worthy inclusion on the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic