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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
This is still very relevant and was ahead of its time by a decade or more. If you like Robin Wall Kimmerer’s work, you’ll love Abram’s. Might edit this to add more thoughts later.
An attempt to build a meaningful contemporary animism, this is the most deeply pagan book I've read this year, and I don't remember it using the word "pagan" once. At times the prose was too much: dense, verbose, overly rich and self-indulgent. But really, that's in keeping with what Abram is trying to achieve: an assertion of radical subjectivity and a call to immerse ourselves in the rich density of both sensuous language and physical reality. Occasionally cringe-inducing, but if you can get past that, this book is an opportunity to try seeing and thinking about the world in a genuinely interesting way.
Personally, I found myself arguing with Abram much of the time I was reading, but it was one hell of an interesting argument and I'll be thinking about it for some time to come.
Personally, I found myself arguing with Abram much of the time I was reading, but it was one hell of an interesting argument and I'll be thinking about it for some time to come.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
medium-paced
slow-paced
Overwritten prose. Certainly had some good & challenging thoughts, but he could’ve written the same book in half the pages.