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wilsonthomasjoseph 's review for:
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
This book is important.
It's very well written and just eminently thought upon.
I think it's strength, for me, was its weakness as well. Sometimes I felt that I was very much not the intended audience with some of the lingo and jargon and allusion flourishes that Wallace-Wells pours into his prose.
This other criticism I have, I'm not sure is warranted. I'd need to read it again just to make sure. Possibly come back to it after time in reflection land. Here is the critique: I felt hammered in the head with doom. Not in the sense of the point of the book, to show us that if we don't act, bad things will come. It was more like the feeling of reading 50 differently worded but identical conclusions through the piece, as if they didn't know about each other. As if there wasn't something being built.
At times it was a slog, both with the prose and the heaviness of the topic. It took me 8 months to read it, and I am a pretty good reader. (Could be the pandemic though.) But it IS an important read, something that focuses the current and future crises. And we need that focus and the different ways to talk about it. For that, I'm thankful this book is out there.
It's very well written and just eminently thought upon.
I think it's strength, for me, was its weakness as well. Sometimes I felt that I was very much not the intended audience with some of the lingo and jargon and allusion flourishes that Wallace-Wells pours into his prose.
This other criticism I have, I'm not sure is warranted. I'd need to read it again just to make sure. Possibly come back to it after time in reflection land. Here is the critique: I felt hammered in the head with doom. Not in the sense of the point of the book, to show us that if we don't act, bad things will come. It was more like the feeling of reading 50 differently worded but identical conclusions through the piece, as if they didn't know about each other. As if there wasn't something being built.
At times it was a slog, both with the prose and the heaviness of the topic. It took me 8 months to read it, and I am a pretty good reader. (Could be the pandemic though.) But it IS an important read, something that focuses the current and future crises. And we need that focus and the different ways to talk about it. For that, I'm thankful this book is out there.