Match BookHot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
2008 · 438 pages · Narrative nonfiction
How it reads
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America is narrative nonfiction (environmental policy analysis, 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 an international setting, in the recent past, told through letters, documents or mixed forms. Its central concerns are nature, power and politics and class and society. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 438 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. 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 want something to chew on
- you want a complete story in one book
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy or dark
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- narrative nonfiction
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- prolific veteran
- Setting: place
- international
- Setting: time
- recent past
- Mood / feeling
- hopeful
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- heavy and literary
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- letters, documents or mixed forms
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- nature, power and politics, class and society
- Ending style
- ambiguous
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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