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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

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madisus's review

dark informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

A brilliant assessment of the social and political landscape during and directly post-pandemic. Klein is so well-researched and spot-on in her analyses that many of her observations and warnings have already come to bear even just a few months after the book’s publication. I strongly recommend to anyone feeling displaced whether emotionally or physically by capitalism— and especially anyone struggling to understand “How did we get here?”

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amachonis's review

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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rissryann's review

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challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Wow.

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oworthyfool's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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madscientistcat's review against another edition

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challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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mads_jpg's review against another edition

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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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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

This was my first Naomi Klein book and going into it, I expected it was going to be more focused on the concept of a digital doppelganger. Admittedly, I was not fully sold on the Other Naomi as a substantive enough doppelganger to base a whole book on. Still, Klein really runs with the idea and branches off into many different connective alleys of thought.

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!

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