Anyone that has read this book, or is familiar with the podcast, will see the humor in having to give the book a rating on a five-star scale!
This is an insightful, thought-provoking, funny, and sometimes emotional collection of short essays about various random topics that John Green has decided to write about over the past couple years. There are about 45 individual essays, and in each one Green briefly discusses an idea or topic and how it has affected him. Each essay then ends with a “review” rating of that subject on a five-star scale. For example, Sunsets received 5 stars, while Canada Geese only received 2 stars. The format makes it feel somewhat like a witty but thoughtful series of blog posts, and it is easy to read a few essays and then pause and come back later. The topics are pretty random and varied, they do not flow naturally into each other.
Green makes some great points, and the format of the book with the star ratings really adds to the humor of this collection. As someone who has written many reviews, I appreciated the absurdity of having to assign a star rating to “Whispering” or “Sycamore Trees.” Overall this was very easy to read, but not something that you need to finish in one sitting.
The signed edition has Green's signature on the first page in green marker, with a little explanation about why he wanted to include his signature. (see picture)
I give Green's Anthropocene Reviewed..... Five Stars!
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While reading this book, a strange feeling overtook me as I read about Jews being blamed for the Black Death, and murdered en masse as a result. I’m Jewish, so I already knew this. But I grappled with what it felt like both to be seen, and not to be seen enough. At once I felt grateful that John was talking about one aspect of the centuries of trauma my ancestors had endured, yet I felt disconnected from his message—that we could choose differently. Because the thing is, hundreds of years later, people didn’t choose differently. All over the world, from Europe to South America, from Australia to the US and everywhere in between, there were people who blamed Jews for somehow causing or spreading Covid-19. The dark part of that message, to me, is that no matter how much we seem to evolve, no matter how many good choices we seem to make, somehow an essence of darkness always remains…and fighting it is so exhausting. That led me back to feeling grateful again, grateful to be acknowledged, grateful to be seen, even if it didn’t feel like quite enough. I know John’s brother Hank collects facts, and I think he’d like this one: the entire population of Ashkenazi Jews today descends from a bottleneck of around 300 people. That’s how many Ashkenazi Jews were left, after tens of thousands were murdered during the Black Death.John’s signature is a beautiful purple, and the page is slightly creased above it. “A real person wrote this book,” I told my daughter. “A real person held this page in their hands.” Feeling connected to people is something I appreciate now, more than ever. Thus, notwithstanding my subjective and irrational desire to feel more seen in a book that wasn’t about me, I can’t give this book anything less than 5 stars.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2021
Anyone that has read this book, or is familiar with the podcast, will see the humor in having to give the book a rating on a five-star scale!
This is an insightful, thought-provoking, funny, and sometimes emotional collection of short essays about various random topics that John Green has decided to write about over the past couple years. There are about 45 individual essays, and in each one Green briefly discusses an idea or topic and how it has affected him. Each essay then ends with a “review” rating of that subject on a five-star scale. For example, Sunsets received 5 stars, while Canada Geese only received 2 stars. The format makes it feel somewhat like a witty but thoughtful series of blog posts, and it is easy to read a few essays and then pause and come back later. The topics are pretty random and varied, they do not flow naturally into each other.
Green makes some great points, and the format of the book with the star ratings really adds to the humor of this collection. As someone who has written many reviews, I appreciated the absurdity of having to assign a star rating to “Whispering” or “Sycamore Trees.” Overall this was very easy to read, but not something that you need to finish in one sitting.
The signed edition has Green's signature on the first page in green marker, with a little explanation about why he wanted to include his signature. (see picture)
I give Green's Anthropocene Reviewed..... Five Stars!
This is an insightful, thought-provoking, funny, and sometimes emotional collection of short essays about various random topics that John Green has decided to write about over the past couple years. There are about 45 individual essays, and in each one Green briefly discusses an idea or topic and how it has affected him. Each essay then ends with a “review” rating of that subject on a five-star scale. For example, Sunsets received 5 stars, while Canada Geese only received 2 stars. The format makes it feel somewhat like a witty but thoughtful series of blog posts, and it is easy to read a few essays and then pause and come back later. The topics are pretty random and varied, they do not flow naturally into each other.
Green makes some great points, and the format of the book with the star ratings really adds to the humor of this collection. As someone who has written many reviews, I appreciated the absurdity of having to assign a star rating to “Whispering” or “Sycamore Trees.” Overall this was very easy to read, but not something that you need to finish in one sitting.
The signed edition has Green's signature on the first page in green marker, with a little explanation about why he wanted to include his signature. (see picture)
I give Green's Anthropocene Reviewed..... Five Stars!
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