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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green
2018 · Contemporary fiction
How it reads
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is contemporary fiction (social media satire, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.
It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are identity and art and creativity. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something hopeful
- you're drawn to stories about identity
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy or dark
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- contemporary fiction
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- debut
- Setting: place
- big city
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- hopeful
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- identity, art and creativity
- Ending style
- ambiguous
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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