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treehuggeranonymous's reviews
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At first I was trying really hard to like this book (cos it's written by a psychologist and has a unique subject matter) and then suddenly I did. I was kinda meh about the relationship stuff, but when they got into the therapy and the drug side-effects I was hooked.
This was such an easy book to get through. I was listening to the audiobook on my commute, and probably garnering strange looks as I couldn't help but laugh at some of the comment. Mindy's narration/writing is very easy going, and has a familiarity like this is a one-on-one chat. Definitely going to read Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me, although am probably doing it out of order.
My first thought on reading this book (once I got past the guest intro obviously) was that the last thing anyone needed was a straight middle-class white guy (we need a good shorthand for that) lecturing people about race. And that thought was pretty pervasive. Like I guess he made some good points, but I would have appreciated a book about racism more if it came from a less privileged perspective.
I'm probably too much of a liberal for this book, but I guess there are some sections of society who need to hear it from their own perspective before they can start to accept it from others. So, like definitely recommend this book for a racist uncle or an aged relative that says unintentionally racist things, but maybe not for your godless youth who thinks they know better cos they're on tumblr.
I'm probably too much of a liberal for this book, but I guess there are some sections of society who need to hear it from their own perspective before they can start to accept it from others. So, like definitely recommend this book for a racist uncle or an aged relative that says unintentionally racist things, but maybe not for your godless youth who thinks they know better cos they're on tumblr.
I probably would have enjoyed this book more if my audiobook wasn't read by one of the worst narrators I've ever come across. The publishers for some reason decided that a book set in the US, France, and UK should have an Australian narrator, but not one with like a normal Aussie accent or a nice Jesse Spencer-esque but a full blown 'Kath & Kim'. It makes it hard to, you know, suspend belief and get absorbed in a book. But aside from the horrendous accent, she just read so poorly - giving no inflection, pausing mid/sentence, and reteading a sentence due to errors (why was that not edited out?).
I really liked the first chapter and thought I would enjoy the rest, but that voice became so grating that it kinda ended up spoiling the book for me.
I really liked the first chapter and thought I would enjoy the rest, but that voice became so grating that it kinda ended up spoiling the book for me.
The original section of the book is really interesting and kinda scary. The new section gets rather fluffy and starts to border on conspiracy nut. I don,t like the 'life and death economy' stuff.