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blandae's review against another edition
The premise sounds interesting but I’m bored by authors recollection of reality TV she took part in as a teenager. I was hoping for more topic specific essays rather than memoir.
kristenml13's review against another edition
4.0
Really compelling and complex ideas that felt accessible the whole time. Highlights for me were, “The I in the Internet,” “Always Be Optimizing,” “We Come from Old Virginia,” and “The Cult of the Difficult Women.”
I would be interested in reading Tolentino’s thoughts on just about anything.
I would be interested in reading Tolentino’s thoughts on just about anything.
mikewardevrybdy's review against another edition
5.0
Thankful for this book. Not just because it’s the first book I’ve gotten through in awhile during quarantine but also it breaks down identity in ways that my overanalyzing mind could only dreams.
rachelmurphy's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.0
aleenasbooks's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
tdem122's review against another edition
4.0
[1st read from 10/5/2023 to 14/5/2023] — 4⭐️
— reallyyyy enjoyable collection with some very accessible writing. some essays were definitely better than others (pure heroines is so well written it makes me jealous it wasn’t me who thought of writing it first) but not any new or groundbreaking subject.
though not an old collection, it does feel a bit outdated as it was published pre covid but i still really enjoyed this and tolentino’s sharp writing !
— reallyyyy enjoyable collection with some very accessible writing. some essays were definitely better than others (pure heroines is so well written it makes me jealous it wasn’t me who thought of writing it first) but not any new or groundbreaking subject.
though not an old collection, it does feel a bit outdated as it was published pre covid but i still really enjoyed this and tolentino’s sharp writing !
ciella__'s review against another edition
1.0
i was very disappointed because i waited for a long time to read this book but i found it awfully boring and frustrating to read
maybe it's because of the cultural difference (i'm from europe) since it mostly talks about the us but still, it was so boring, i really tried, but i ended up dropping it 10 pages before the end, i know, i should've finished it maybe but i was so tired of reading something that hardly tried to make a point and reading a series of newspaper-like paragraphs summing up an event and trivial stuff that was there just to fill the gaps -- it's the kind of stuff that if you remember, you can boast a little about it in a party but that will be forgotten the day after
i don't even remember what the book was talking about since it didn't make a clear point, just reading someone who over-researched and a series of examples -- i was so lost in them, i just didn't understand it was trying to say...
maybe it did talk about feminism, capitalism, religion, technologies but again, i was so lost in the examples, i couldn't make sense of what was being tried to be said i felt like reading the draft of an essay, it's good to have examples but when you have too many of them, it just doesn't make sense, it's better to focus on a few, but VERY relevant ones, it's useless to cite many studies, authors, newspaper article, events just to fill the gaps and say "SEE I KNOW THINGS", because when someone knows things/ is educated, it doesn't have to be told through a number of examples, it just shows, it can be seen and that's it.
maybe it's because of the cultural difference (i'm from europe) since it mostly talks about the us but still, it was so boring, i really tried, but i ended up dropping it 10 pages before the end, i know, i should've finished it maybe but i was so tired of reading something that hardly tried to make a point and reading a series of newspaper-like paragraphs summing up an event and trivial stuff that was there just to fill the gaps -- it's the kind of stuff that if you remember, you can boast a little about it in a party but that will be forgotten the day after
i don't even remember what the book was talking about since it didn't make a clear point, just reading someone who over-researched and a series of examples -- i was so lost in them, i just didn't understand it was trying to say...
maybe it did talk about feminism, capitalism, religion, technologies but again, i was so lost in the examples, i couldn't make sense of what was being tried to be said i felt like reading the draft of an essay, it's good to have examples but when you have too many of them, it just doesn't make sense, it's better to focus on a few, but VERY relevant ones, it's useless to cite many studies, authors, newspaper article, events just to fill the gaps and say "SEE I KNOW THINGS", because when someone knows things/ is educated, it doesn't have to be told through a number of examples, it just shows, it can be seen and that's it.