Reviews with content warning for Medical content - Tu mundo y el mío: Postales del Antropoceno

I liked this read and it was a nice surprise that John Green narrated his own audiobook. I liked listening because it was almost like I was watching another Crash Course History video. It was very relaxing and I find that I agreed with a lot of things he wrote about the Anthropocene. He touched on a lot of common aspects of the current times. I wonder about a lot of the things he wonders about with life and nature too. The only reason I didn’t rate it 5 stars is because it felt a little drawn out, like it should have been shorter, but otherwise, was very pleasant.

Content Warnings

noellegrace8's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

I don't much like John Green's fiction. I don't actively DISlike it, but it always seems to be a bit too light on the plot and characterization end and too heavy handed on the philosophical end. They're fine if not a bit heady, but John Green was made for nonfiction. We love his Crash Courses, his YouTube videos, his real life advocacy, and his podcasts. And this is that. Even down to its cadence and organization, this is just John Green having a highly consumable conversation with the reader that also helps them feel more encouraged about this life, even despite the many moments that suggest we should be panicking, even despite the occasional, poorly-veiled social advocacy moments.. He delivers a peacful philosophy despite it all. This is officially a new favorite book of mine. I need to go get a physical copy now.

While I don't include audiobook performance in my star rating of a book itself, I have the unique experience here of being able to critique the same person twice. Because John Green is an incredibly gifted speaker, and because I believe that audiobooks voiced by the author themselves have the potential to be the best of their kind, there's nothing about this narration that didn't hit the mark. I give John Green reading his own book the Anthropocene Reviewed... 5 stars.

Content Warnings

cinnamonroll42's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

How ironic it feels to be rating The Anthropocene Reviewed. This book made me laugh out loud, smile, sing, cry, and remember. Reading this book in 2024 brought me back to those early Covid days, desperately trying to maintain my sanity while humanity was aching. I loved the way John couches everything in his own experience while also giving context and information about the subjects he explores, and I especially appreciated the way he openly discussed the impact of colonialism and prejudice in each subject. Listening to John read the audiobook was special, as it felt like a friend telling me stories about their life. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” 5 stars.

Content Warnings

rallsley's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This is my first John Green book experience, but not my first experience of him. My first experience involve my boyfriend introducing me to VlogBrothers when talking about fond pre-college memories. I have since married this boyfriend and in turn he successfully made me a Nerdfighter. But I was still a jock at heart and reading was still off the table until this year when, as Green puts it, my entire life turned into a "What's the Point?" game.
Read this if you want to learn about the author, the man who has been present since before YouTube and now emerging from the "post" Covid-19 pandemic world. Be enlightened with new ways to describe the fuzzy static that happens during a panic attack with the familiar prose of a John Green video (probably the books too but again, haven't read them. Yet)
Only losing 0.25 because I' m mad i didnt think of this memoir format first, I give The Anthropocene Reviewed 4.75 stars.

Content Warnings

virgcole398's review against another edition

Go to review page

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Content Warnings

danasaur's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

4.5

Particularly excellent as an audiobook!

Content Warnings

sarahina_b's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

Content Warnings

More...