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A review by liamliayaum
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
5.0
The Anthropocene Reviewed is John Green's flagship nonfiction novel. Packed with 46 essays on tops from hot dogs to comets and paint to sunsets, these essays are woven with poignant reminders of the stark times live in juxtaposed against the magnificence of the human condition.
The essays can be read in any order but there are small threads that connect them in the order listed, even if the essays aren't in chronological order by topic. John Green has a unique way to intersect the anxious and depressive human state to the wonders, fascinations, and destructions that the human condition creates.
The line that echoes in my head, perhaps due to the vlogbrothers video of the past, is "we're here because we're here." Since the age of the first humans, we have been asking the universal question of why. Why? Because we're here.
I give The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars.
The essays can be read in any order but there are small threads that connect them in the order listed, even if the essays aren't in chronological order by topic. John Green has a unique way to intersect the anxious and depressive human state to the wonders, fascinations, and destructions that the human condition creates.
The line that echoes in my head, perhaps due to the vlogbrothers video of the past, is "we're here because we're here." Since the age of the first humans, we have been asking the universal question of why. Why? Because we're here.
I give The Anthropocene Reviewed five stars.