Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green

11 reviews

casira's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Classism, Forced institutionalization, and Kidnapping

Minor: Violence and Gun violence

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

There were parts of this book that I didn’t find particularly engaging, but the themes were fascinating. I deeply enjoyed the topics that Green raised in the book, especially observations about what motivates people and how that affects how our society works. I appreciate the way Green makes his characters flawed, and how that isn’t always resolved in the ways that we want. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Addiction

Minor: Classism, Colonisation, and Grief

saricostanzo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Cursing, Violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Classism, Gaslighting, Racism, Death, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide

alysereadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It’s rare that I love the sequel more than the first, but this book was an exception. Hank Green did an amazing  job exploring the implications of technology outpacing humanity. Loved the Atlus concept and was a fast read. Might reread. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Classism, and Injury/Injury detail

polychromatic_hedgehog_parable's review against another edition

todo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual content, Gun violence, Addiction, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Vomit, Racism, and Colonisation

c95newman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

[This is a sequel, MAJOR spoiler alert for the first book, an absolutely remarkable thing] 

Following April's death the gang is attempting to pick up the pieces of their former lives and learn to live without her. But then they start getting mysterious books that seem to know exactly what they are going to do, and has some clues and advice for them. Cue an adventure with a few 20 somethings, a cyborg, a monkey, and a potato plant. 

I REALLY loved this book. One thing I think Hank Green does super well is mix his huge life-changing stories with a bit of whimsy. It reminds me a bit of hitchhiker's guide. And it makes the story more fun in the heavy parts. 

Each chapter of the book changes the narrator, and is titled with the name of the narrator. I like how we get the thoughts of all of the flawed characters, and I really resonate with Andy's character development. I feel like his flaws are easy to criticize from the outside, but are way more relatable when you see his inner monologs. I wasnt a huge fan of Carl's chapters, mostly because they were extremely confusing and while obviously Carl's powers are not real, Hank Green still tried to explain them in a scientific way that didn't make sense to me as a non scientist. 

It focused really heavily on fame, the power of social media, and society. I really like how the themes carried over from the last book. 

The queer representation in this book was perfect. Its really hard to find a book with queer characters that are characterized well and thoughtfully, especially by a (presumably) not queer person. Just like the first book, the relationships were realistic and the queer characters had traits other than "queer". 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Vomit

Several characters loose control over their bodies or minds. Its a key plot point

cerilouisereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Gore, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Police brutality, Racism, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

nixieba25f's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Medical content, Racism, Sexism, Misogyny, Slavery, and Xenophobia

scruffie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Police brutality, Medical content, and Blood

Minor: Vomit, Death, Cursing, and Sexism

laurenleigh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Loved the first book, and I loved the sequel!! A lot of my praise here is going to similar to my appreciation of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Both books are truly of this time, of this exact moment in history. It’s really about what it means to be a human in this day, both what’s beautiful and terrible about that. Green touches on so many important issues like gun control, racism, and discovering your sexuality, all within the context of a fun, engaging story. But above all, Green focuses on two things. First, a discussion of power: who gets it, how they keep it, and what it means to use it. In our society, that’s mainly rich white dudes of course. Secondly, Green really dives into how the internet and social media have a huge impact on our lives, arguing that we live in these spaces. Yes, we’re citizens of the US, but we also can consider ourselves citizens of these online spaces. They’re where we connect with people; where we create art or content; where we spend hours of our day; where we make decisions about what we want to buy, where we want to travel, who we want to associate with. If we think of these social media spaces this way, should they be regulated and run like a country or like a company? How are those structures the same and how do they differ? So much to noodle on, but also, I just adore these characters and loved spending more time with them!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Medical content and Gun violence

Minor: Racism