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Carregando... Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusionde Jia Tolentino
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  capnfabs | Mar 9, 2024 |   Some of the other pieces were mediocre, while some were just awful (the worst being the one about the author's past as a reality show participant) and some felt very superficial although well-meaning ("Always Optimizing"). Even though I don't agree with the author on many topics, I could appreciate her honesty while reading this, but I am confused about why this is so highly regarded. I learned nothing new from this. 2.5 stars (  ) ZeljanaMaricFerli | Mar 4, 2024 | For me, there were two essays that really stood above the rest: 1. The Story of a Generation in Seven Scams. Sure, I already knew about all of these scams, but it still felt shocking to see them hung together like that. 2. Ecstasy. Wow, this one was a real surprise! Connecting the Houston mega-church of her childhood to taking molly. Very intriguing for someone who hasn't ever really done drugs or gone to church. I thought the essay on heroines was the weakest, even though it's the subject matter I like best, because it felt like she was cherrypicking books that fit her thesis. Another low point for me was "Always Be Optimizing" even though it has merit. I'm just at a point where I can't stand reading about feminism as it relates to wealthy women who take expensive exercise classes and feel the need to look perfect to succeed in corporate America. (  ) LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 | In like manner, Tolentino enumerates the dangers of the internet, or the madness of optimizing—while vigorously participating in both. But then, her subtitle does nod to this awareness: Reflections on Self-Delusion. Brilliant writing—the kind I envy—vibrant, personal yet well researched, observant and deep. (  ) rebwaring | Aug 14, 2023 | ) bookwrapt | Mar 31, 2023 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith * "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time."--Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * Time * Chicago Tribune * The Washington Post * NPR * Variety * Esquire * Vox * Elle * Glamour * GQ * Good Housekeeping * The Paris Review * Paste * Town & Country * BookPage * Kirkus Reviews * BookRiot * Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino's sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This approach works well, though, and it's good that the earlier essays focus more heavily on this, because I felt like the latter ones focus on more important material, and being familiar with Tolentino's style by that point meant I could focus on the arguments.
I found some essays were beyond me. Pure Heroines works best if you've read a lot of literature.
Some essays use a lot of words to convey a point, and got a little slow at times, but it was nice to be able to trace Tolentino's thought process as she deals with hard topics. And I think that thing that I found unsettling at the start, about bringing "just the right amount of yourself" into the work, turned out to be a huge advantage for the harder topics of the essays "We Come From Old Virginia", "The Cult of the Difficult Woman" and "I Thee Dread", because the arguments are nuanced in response to a complex topic, and so having a good understanding of the author's context makes it easier to empathise, and therefore, to see the nuance.
So yeah, 4.5 stars. I've already recommended it to two or three friends. (