laurenkimoto's review
medium-paced
5.0
Is this the last minute underdog for one of my top reads of the year???
This book may become my Roman Empire
This book may become my Roman Empire
nic_readsbooks's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.0
it’s taken me a while to write this review i have mixed views on this book.
It was immensely informative and the ideas of us having doppelgängers were really interesting and maybe a little bit terrifying.
It was well written, thought out and researched. There was clearly a lot of hard work taken for this book to be written.
The writing style was accessible and despite the heavy topic, I found the content easy to follow.
I think the thing I struggled with was that the basis was the author being annoyed that she was constantly mixed up with another person because they have the same first name and are both authors. I found it interesting that this book had stemmed from the author getting fed up and it seemed like this led to her spending enormous amounts of time and effort to write this to repeatedly make the point about how annoying it was.
I think for that reason I struggled with it a little. Yet it was an interesting book and I definitely learnt a lot so overall a four star for me
cacciaguida's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
vyria's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
sewing_writer's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
mrrwmix's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
samwescott's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Man, this book took me a lot of places and many of them were very emotional! Insightful, literary, personable, and really, really sharp.
I didn’t really know what I was getting into with this book, but what I thought was going to be a feisty, but thoughtful take on a weird Twitter beef was actually a personally driven literary lens of doppelgängers and mirrors applied to current events, world politics, the climate crisis, and the way we see ourselves.
The weird uncanny valley feeling of meeting your double is used here to perfectly illustrate the queasiness I often feel when despairing about life in a country that seems to be populated with people living in alternate realities, seeing current events reflected in a funhouse mirror and not knowing how to insist that your reflection isn’t more real than you.
It’s non-fiction and the topics are often quite dire, but Klein’s writing is incredibly engaging and I found the book almost impossible to put down, even when the subject matter was making me sad. Definitely going to be mulling on this one for awhile.
I didn’t really know what I was getting into with this book, but what I thought was going to be a feisty, but thoughtful take on a weird Twitter beef was actually a personally driven literary lens of doppelgängers and mirrors applied to current events, world politics, the climate crisis, and the way we see ourselves.
The weird uncanny valley feeling of meeting your double is used here to perfectly illustrate the queasiness I often feel when despairing about life in a country that seems to be populated with people living in alternate realities, seeing current events reflected in a funhouse mirror and not knowing how to insist that your reflection isn’t more real than you.
It’s non-fiction and the topics are often quite dire, but Klein’s writing is incredibly engaging and I found the book almost impossible to put down, even when the subject matter was making me sad. Definitely going to be mulling on this one for awhile.
vickywoodburn's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0