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wharj's review against another edition
3.0
2.5/5
I really wanted to like this more. In most cases I'd agree with the author but the book really needed more rounds of editing and cleaning up.
I'm also very much not a fan of graphics that don't contribute anything meaningful or of pull quotes in books.
I really wanted to like this more. In most cases I'd agree with the author but the book really needed more rounds of editing and cleaning up.
I'm also very much not a fan of graphics that don't contribute anything meaningful or of pull quotes in books.
marfer20's review
3.0
More like 3.5 stars but rounding down because it really is all stuff I already know, but I appreciated the presentation.
bootman's review against another edition
Although Anne Helen Petersen went viral with her BuzzFeed article on millennial burnout and recently released her new book Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, I preferred this book bi Filipovic much more. I'm a millennial who is curious about human nature, and I've become more interested in how we got to where we are today. Filipovic did a really good job explaining the divide between boomers and millennials and how boomers set us up for a world that we're now trying to fix.
Whereas Can't Even had a few good parts, most of it just made us millennials look as entitled as boomers claim we are. In this book, that only happened a couple times, but it wasn't nearly as ludicrous as the arguments Petersen made. My only critique is that as a skeptic, I'm curious about some of the stats and surveys Filipovic used in this book. Some of them didn't sound accurate based on other research I've done, so if I get some time, I may fact check her a little bit and see what her sources were. Other than that, I think this was a great book.
Whereas Can't Even had a few good parts, most of it just made us millennials look as entitled as boomers claim we are. In this book, that only happened a couple times, but it wasn't nearly as ludicrous as the arguments Petersen made. My only critique is that as a skeptic, I'm curious about some of the stats and surveys Filipovic used in this book. Some of them didn't sound accurate based on other research I've done, so if I get some time, I may fact check her a little bit and see what her sources were. Other than that, I think this was a great book.
kbauer95's review against another edition
4.0
I think it’s really unfortunate that the author didn’t actually cite any sources in this — I feel as though so much of this book came off as her opinion when it’s clear from the sheer volume of statistics stated that this is a well researched book. Still a great (and as a millennial, extremely bleak) read