Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

36 reviews

mads_jpg's review against another edition

challenging informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

4.25

I regret listening to the audiobook because there were so many sections I wanted to annotate the hell out of, so I'm gonna have to reread this once I've got a physical copy.

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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Confinement, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, and Abortion

booksthatburn's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and War

klyon12's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Genocide and Pandemic/Epidemic

meganpbell's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Facing her own doppelgänger, leftist activist Naomi Klein explores the absurdity, inversion, and surreality of our cultural and political moment, offering piercing perspectives on self-branding and conspiracy theories, climate change and the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and more. Sprawling, funny, intellectually invigorating, and disturbing in equal measure—if you get lost following Klein through the mirror world,  you’ll end with your feet on more solid ground.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mmccombs's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Absolutely a must read! This is my first book from Klein and I immediately feel compelled to reach for her backlist. For a fairly short-ish book, this covers so much ground while also going pretty deeply into each topic, I felt it was quite comprehensive. My only complaint was that I sometimes struggled with the organization of the book, I never quite knew where it was going, though each time we got somewhere I enjoyed myself. This is a great book for understanding where we are right now and imagining where we could be, I want to throw this book at everyone I meet!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

ranocchietto's review

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic