A review by samwescott
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
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.