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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This has some really interesting, thought-provoking ideas on the concept of community building. However, I did feel like the time scale featured in this book was too narrow considering how society and culture collapsed and was radically rebuilt in such a short span of time. Maybe more interviews over the course of a century or so would make this seem plausible? While the people interviewed were very diverse in identity, it appeared that they spoke with a very similar voice.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
A book unlike any other I’ve read, getting a high rating partially for that. Hopeful, grief-ful, happy, sad, and interesting.
dark
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was really interesting to me. It is optimistic and imaginative without being utterly romantic.
You hear directly from characters about the sacrifices they and others have made, the suffering they endured, and their fears for the future. It is not *all* honey and roses, but it is *mostly* honey and roses (at least at the moment these interviews were collected). Not all characters went from or through misery into utopia, but many did.
I liked taking a look at the varied paths that characters took through life to where they are now, and likewise how revolution developed through many different ways and on many fronts. I was not always completely convinced by what I was reading, but the necessity of a variety of pathways to liberation absolutely makes sense to me.
Something that did not make sense to me and that I found a little...sad? (Reductive? Cynical? Not sure) was the number of characters with significant lust for violence or revenge. While it would make sense to me that one or two characters might be moved to violence by the injustices they've endure or witnessed...the easy enjoyment(?) of violence felt antithetical to the world they were fighting for. It's not the use of violence that I balk at...it's the flippant way in which it was discussed and taken pleasure in that rubbed me the wrong way.
I thought the story focused on accute child abuse was interesting...but I don't think I like the solution the community came to. It was challenging to think about what would happen when a person does something that hurts others -- how do you care for the harmed? How do you repair? How do you care for the person causing harm? The particular example they used made it easy to see the humanity in the abuser. It is much harder to do so with examples in my life.
This is not a how-to manual for communism. Quite honestly many of the things discussed in the book seemed more aligned w anarchism in my opinion, but I digress. Logistical issues associated w this dreamt up future are touched on but not explained in detail, just like if we were interviewed today we would typically not focus on those things.
In the way that 1984 was a cynical, warning look at the future at the time, Everything for Everyone is an imaginative and hopeful look at what the future could hold. I find it inspiring to think about what individual people who come together can accomplish. I find it inspiring and uplifting to dream of a future where "health insurance" is a foreign concept in need of defining. A future where people learn, and work, and live together in a free society. Not without conflict, but without oppressive heirarchy and without capitalism. It's just a dream for now but this book helps me dream w purpose and resolve instead of resignation.
I enjoyed this read and would recommend it to people who are interested in anarchism/communism but struggle to see how it could become reality or feel overwhelmed by the state of society today.
You hear directly from characters about the sacrifices they and others have made, the suffering they endured, and their fears for the future. It is not *all* honey and roses, but it is *mostly* honey and roses (at least at the moment these interviews were collected). Not all characters went from or through misery into utopia, but many did.
I liked taking a look at the varied paths that characters took through life to where they are now, and likewise how revolution developed through many different ways and on many fronts. I was not always completely convinced by what I was reading, but the necessity of a variety of pathways to liberation absolutely makes sense to me.
Something that did not make sense to me and that I found a little...sad? (Reductive? Cynical? Not sure) was the number of characters with significant lust for violence or revenge. While it would make sense to me that one or two characters might be moved to violence by the injustices they've endure or witnessed...the easy enjoyment(?) of violence felt antithetical to the world they were fighting for. It's not the use of violence that I balk at...it's the flippant way in which it was discussed and taken pleasure in that rubbed me the wrong way.
I thought the story focused on accute child abuse was interesting...but I don't think I like the solution the community came to. It was challenging to think about what would happen when a person does something that hurts others -- how do you care for the harmed? How do you repair? How do you care for the person causing harm? The particular example they used made it easy to see the humanity in the abuser. It is much harder to do so with examples in my life.
This is not a how-to manual for communism. Quite honestly many of the things discussed in the book seemed more aligned w anarchism in my opinion, but I digress. Logistical issues associated w this dreamt up future are touched on but not explained in detail, just like if we were interviewed today we would typically not focus on those things.
In the way that 1984 was a cynical, warning look at the future at the time, Everything for Everyone is an imaginative and hopeful look at what the future could hold. I find it inspiring to think about what individual people who come together can accomplish. I find it inspiring and uplifting to dream of a future where "health insurance" is a foreign concept in need of defining. A future where people learn, and work, and live together in a free society. Not without conflict, but without oppressive heirarchy and without capitalism. It's just a dream for now but this book helps me dream w purpose and resolve instead of resignation.
I enjoyed this read and would recommend it to people who are interested in anarchism/communism but struggle to see how it could become reality or feel overwhelmed by the state of society today.
challenging
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
informative
inspiring
reflective
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
This is such an interesting concept as well as being well executed. There are so many stories about how awful the future will be, and this story makes the point that the future never actually arrives but is simply another name for a world we are always creating.
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
