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chloem 's review for:
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
by David Wallace-Wells
Reading this book made me so incredibly angry and scared. It provides the most comprehensive and brutally honest picture of what a world ravaged by global warming will be like.
I like the first half of the book much more. He separates his chapters by different phenomena and paints a picture of each separately. Because of this, the book does feel like it is repeating itself a bit, but i did like this structure.
The second half felt a bit weaker to me, although it covered cultural and political things which are more interesting to me. It felt throughout that he was being unnecessarily wordy to the point where i had to reread sentences because I didn’t not take in what he was saying. This was such an annoying and consistent problem that i would rate this book a 3 star if it otherwise didn’t evoke strong feelings. For a book that would function well as a baldfaced call to action, the purple prose in here will surely take away accessibility because i struggled to get through the writing and this was only 230 pages.
I would still recommend this book to everyone - especially as something to be read slowly alongside another book. The information in here isn’t something to be rushed through and shelved away. It should seriously change the way you look at the present.
I like the first half of the book much more. He separates his chapters by different phenomena and paints a picture of each separately. Because of this, the book does feel like it is repeating itself a bit, but i did like this structure.
The second half felt a bit weaker to me, although it covered cultural and political things which are more interesting to me. It felt throughout that he was being unnecessarily wordy to the point where i had to reread sentences because I didn’t not take in what he was saying. This was such an annoying and consistent problem that i would rate this book a 3 star if it otherwise didn’t evoke strong feelings. For a book that would function well as a baldfaced call to action, the purple prose in here will surely take away accessibility because i struggled to get through the writing and this was only 230 pages.
I would still recommend this book to everyone - especially as something to be read slowly alongside another book. The information in here isn’t something to be rushed through and shelved away. It should seriously change the way you look at the present.