The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 

Signed copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed are available now: prh.com/johngreen (There is also an audiobook, narrated by me.) The wondrous design and animation in this video are by Meitar Almog, whose work can be found at instagram.com/meitaralmog/ and vimeo.com/meitaralmog If you like this video, please share it. Thanks! -John

I give this animated excerpt of John Green's "The Anthropocene Reviewed" five out of five stars.

Every other book of Johns I’ve read, I’ve read in my own voice, or the imagined voice of the character - I read The Anthropocene Reviewed in Johns voice. To me, that’s a sign that John nailed writing without any code.

These "first chapter" readings are getting more and more high-effort with every novel. Looking forward to the IMAX 3D film for Hank's third novel, An Awesomely Fearless Potato.

"For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life, pay attention to what you pay attention to. That's pretty much all the info you need." *My new favourite quote of all time*

Apropos of nothing: the names Hazel Grace Lancaster and Margot Roth Spiegelman contain the same number of names, each with the same number of syllables, and have the same scansion as Amy Krause Rosenthal.

I love to hear (or read) John say "or whatever." He is a master of the English language, and when I hear that phrase I know exactly how little (or how much) the continuation of the previous thought really means in the grand scheme of things. I give "...or whatever" 4 stars.

I did not know Amy Krouse Rosenthal, but whenever John talks about her I feel like I miss her, too.

i watched this and went "ah men that was wonderful i wish i could keep reading" and then i checked my mailbox and realised my copy of the book arrived today!! i give the dutch post system 4.5 stars for timing

“I’m finding out as I’m aging, that I’m in love with the world.” Oh wow.

I love being able to recognize points of the story where John smiles while narrating

I cried when I read this and I'm crying again listening - this will never cease to be beautiful, melancholy, and inspiring

Exactly how it was imagined in my head. Thank you VlogBrothers, I give this 5 stars :)

“Turtles All The Way Down” allowed me to create a photo project through which I connected with my parents. Now I’m writing my own YA novel about a teen living with OCD. Thank you, John. I’m here because Nerdfighteria is here. And Nerdfighteria is, above all else, home.

"We all know how loving ends." I don't think I ever thought about that until just now.

It is rare, with ADHD, to read any chapter twice just for the pleasure of it. The need for new to keep my attention is an impossibly high barrier to get past. So John, please take this as the highest compliment I can give, listening to this video was the third time I have taken in this chapter. I give it 5 out of 5 stars.

"It is a bench" -some guy

This animation takes "tell the truth but tell it slant" to a whole other level

"Even separated, we are bound up in each other." is what got me.

I ordered this book on impulse the day before it was released without realizing it was signed, when I opened the cover and saw your signature I immediately slammed the book shut and started smiling more than I’ve ever smiled in my life. And when I realized the pun you had made by signing your first name in green pen I laughed for the first time in what felt like forever. The thought of a book making me feel so much emotion before I even read it sounds ridiculous but you managed to accomplish that, so thank you John, I hope to be half of everything you are

The book was finally released in Pakistan! I got my copy today and I've already cried. Its beautiful, John

A burden shared is a burden halfed. I felt every word you said. And I hope the thousands of people watching this has chopped your burden infinitely small.

Hank's next video: "So what's up with chairs??" Just kidding, John, this was beautiful.

My hardcover arrived 30 minutes ago, I just finished the first chapter and wanted to listen to the song 'You'll Never Walk Alone', when this animation popped up on my homepage. Even though I've barely skimmed the surface of the book, it already feels so human, which is exactly what I hoped it would feel like. thankyou :)

i'm so used to hearing john in 4 minute chunks that i instinctively checked how long was left at 4:10

Hard to articulate how beautiful and moving this was. Too many perfect lines, too many perfect frames... John, I think you might have a knack for this writing thing.

I thought you might it mildly amusing that RU-vid asked me to rate its app out of 5 stars immediately after closing this video.

this was incredibly beautiful, your animator is extraordinary and your writing about the world is exactly exactly what i need right now, thankyou

Wow that was incredible. Little Maurice Sendak in his Wild Things outfit was powerful. 5/5 stars.

Hi John. Last night I both started and finished Turtles All The Way Down, having read Looking for Alaska a few days before and rabid for more of the same. Excellent stuff. Also, I had Labyrinthitis last year. I feel your spins, you have my belated sympathy. Tonight I will be reading A Fault In Our Stars. Thanks for providing these wonderful adventures.

I will never be able to express how much I love listening to John read. Every time I listen I feel so relaxed & entranced. It's almost like he gives new meaning to words I've known my whole life.

The Anthropocene Reviewed has got to be one of the most hopeful, inspiring, and insightful books I've ever read. Thank you.

I have such a reverence for John. The way he describes his view of the world is so beautiful. Its both familiar and other to me. He's an incredible man, and Im glad to have been alive to hear his words from him himself.

"The world began to roll and spin" *2020 in a nutshell...and the All Star references live on*

John I experienced a vertigo attack in February. This eloquently put how it made me feel. So empty and helpless, and I had never heard of anybody else experiencing this from a first hand experience, thank you for giving me a connection point.

I'm nearly 50 years old and I find it as cozy to be read to now as I did when I was a child. Thank you, John.

this animation style combined with john's narration is so rhythmic and lovely :) best first chapter reading yet

India is still struggling with the second wave and we are in lockdown. I am awaiting the delivery of my copy of the book, this really was comforting John. The way you put the feelings I have always had but didn’t know how to express them is so beautiful and vulnerable that it makes me feel less alone. You have made me a more sensitive and thoughtful person and I can’t thank you enough.

finished the book yesterday, and it was the best thing I’ve read in a long time. I cannot stop thinking about it and telling everyone I know to pick it up. thank you for your genius, John!

vertigo recovery + ocd is one hell of a shitty combo. i quite literally feel the pain you shared with this essay. i am halfway through TAR and while i have enjoyed your books for the past 12 years of my life, this one spoke to me on another level. thank you for creating the podcast and sharing these stories in a curious, earnest way.

The illustration of Maurice Sendak and Max is an aspect type of nostalgia I didn't know existed.

I’ve been looking forward to this! I love it when you guys read the first chapters it’s such a nice tradition! I’ve also been really enjoying the book!! Thank you John!

One of the best lines from this video is when John says that getting a disease is something that we have to learn to live with as well as we can. That got me into thinking, some things that happen to us aren't because we need to learn a lesson, but just to learn to live with it. Thanks John. :)

I already heard this on the audiobook version and I almost didn’t cry this time!

I remember hearing that Maurice Sendak interview. I was in my first year of teaching and I was driving home after school. I parked my car about halfway through the interview and just sat and listened. I go back and listen to it every once in awhile. Incredibly powerful.

Truly, this is John’s best work. Easily, and hands down. It’s so beautiful, thoughtful, vulnerable, funny, hopeful, and somehow also kind. I am so grateful for this book, and the next time I’m in amsterdam, I’ll go to the bench and bring my book along. ❤️

Nerdfighteria has the most beautiful, thoughtful comments section. It's so peaceful here. Thank you, everyone. I give this comments section five stars.

This book would make a great podcast.

First, this podcast, and then watching John's private livestreams while signing, and now reading this book, have brought me a strange brand of peace - so much melancholy and joy, such balance, time to reflect, and insight - in this past year. Each essay makes me smile and makes me cry. Beautifully done, all of it. Thank you, John.

This confirms that I need the audio book *update* I got the audiobook...

I’ll be honest I read this yesterday and I had to look up some of the words. Not only do I get to read something I enjoy, I get to learn stuff as well. Thanks John! 🙂

The way this made me feel human again in a way that’s been so distant since quarantine.

I’ve been following your work and career since 2012, I was 12 and in 7th grade. Last Saturday I graduated from college with my BA in Social Studies Education and History with aspirations of becoming a teacher. My copy of your book is waiting for me at my childhood home back in New Jersey and I move back this weekend. I am waiting with anticipation to read it, but even before I have, I already feel deeply touched by your work and grateful for all that you’ve given. I’ve gotten to carry your work with me all these years, and it feels like a “full circle” moment. So thank you and congrats John, I hope you know how wonderful the journey has been :)

I've listened to TAR 5 times already. It's just glorious, and your reading of it *chef's kiss!

Something about John's voice is just so calming. The way you talk about hard things helps me deal with my own hard things. The Anthropocene Reviewed (and TFIOS) has been part of my coping mechanism for my own illness. I have also become more mindful of what I pay attention to through this podcast and now book. Beautiful. Thank you.

Hey, I saw a few copies of the book last night in Walmart and checked the signatures. Only one of the signatures was green, and, despite not having purchased a new book in a physical book store for probably ten years or more, I bought the one with the green signature, natch. You ain't no John Purple, after all. I give the green signature five stars.

"we are so powerful that we have escaped our planet's atmosphere. But we are not powerful enough to save those we love from suffering." These lines are all at once lovely, inspiring, grounding *pun intended* and heartbreaking. Thank you John

The Anthropocene Reviewed often made me cry - this reading was no different. I can't wait for my copy to arrive so I can cry even more.

6:21 “(OCD & cancer) Portrayed not as battles to be won … But as illnesses to be lived with as well as one can.” I got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis last year. This hit me… I can feel that I’m still mentally treating it like a battle to be won - and it’s wearing me down, hurting me. A battle I can’t win, as it will never leave me. I can not banish it from my life. I can just choose which achievements in life to fight for, and see the disease as a condition, which may to some extent alter my ability to take on those fights. Just a condition, like a -1 to Intelligence, or Athletics, in D&D - a debuff which may increase over time. Not something to battle, but to manage, best as I can. Thank you.

"We all know how loving ends."

I don’t know how you do it John; every one of your essays is amazing. By the end I’m always either smiling or crying - and both are good.

Wow what a great format for this! Loving the art style.

"There are no observers, only participants." Thank you for letting us participate.

"It is a glory and a privilege to love what death doesn't touch." - Donna Tartt Thank you for this book, John. Thank you for being so inspiring and keep reminding us how to live.

This is an excellent example of why my purchasing the book was a necessity. Thank you John for being so vulnerable with us and showing us that you're human too.

Okay this sold me bought the audio book and a physical book

One of my favorite chapter was probably “New Partner”. I loved the ending when his son said he liked the song a little.

When I read this in the book, I heard it as if John were reading it to me in exactly this way. This is so comforting.

My dad passed away this month. “We all know how loving ends” hit a chord with me. And the desire to keep loving anyway

I just realized there’s a tiny three farmers on their way to a dance in the background! Cute :)

At the beginning of this video I swore that John had made this video before then I realized it was cuz I read the book in johns voice 😂

I am listening to this while having to prepare a presentation on Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo ( not labrynthitis, but still a cause of vertigo) and Johns inside and description is far more helpful then the Wikipedia page

I’m just over half way through the audio right now, my favourite chapter so far is “Sunsets” Such a great book :)

I think you may have just sold another book. Such concise wordsmanship and solemn vulnerability. Absolutely a beautiful human. Your parents must be proud. Because I, as a complete stranger, am. I admire the hell out of you (and hank). So unabashedly yourselves, quirks and all. Thanks for your existence and willingness to share it. Makes me feel less alone on this increasingly isolating planet. Kudos!

Audio book purchased. You two are really on a roll with the whole making me cry thing lately

Listening to the audiobook has been my source of peace and hope for the last week. Thanks, John 💕

I'm halfway through and so far my favourite essay has been geese but the part I think back to the most is your introduction. Thank you, once again, for writing so beautiful.

Shout out to Meitar Almog for creating the animation for this wonderful video!

I read The Fault in Our Stars in the hospital lobby the day before my first child was born. My wife works at the same hospital where her OB/GYN does, so she did a full day's work at in the lab before her appointment. Sitting in the lobby reading the book cover to cover was a quiet respite very much unlike the busy months of teaching high school that proceeded it (thank you for team teaching with me on occasion through Crash Course). I cried as the book ended and joined my wife for her appointment, where the doctor promptly asked if we were ready to have a baby and sent her to be induced. What followed was a long night of labor, an early morning emergency C-section, and weeping to the first cry of my little girl. The days, weeks, and years that followed have been the most beautiful imaginable. Your book, as you well know as a dad and husband, doesn't hold a candle to the beauty of my wife's bravery and my baby girl's eyes; what it did do, and do so beautifully, is carve out that quiet, open vulnerability away from the noise of everyday goings on to prepare me for some of the most important moments of my life. Thank you, seriously, for that. I am looking forward to this new book - I got my copy the day it came out - and the quiet reflection it will inspire.

The artwork in this is absolutely perfect for John's voiceover

I'm about a third of the way through The Anthropocene Reviewed and it is your best book ever!

I found the Anthropocene Reviewed in a bookstore when I was on vacation. I didn't originally think I would have a chance to buy the copy, as I didn't have any good bookstores near to my small hometown. But as soon as I saw it, waiting on the new arrival's shelf, I had to get it. I remember getting home and opening it up to the first chapter, and starting to read... in John Green's voice. The most fascinating part about the book on first impression is that I can so easily read it in the original author's voice, with all of the funny inflections and characteristic tones that grace his speech in many of the "vlogbrothers" and "Crash Course" series. I rarely have the same experience with other books, as many authors are not the same public figures that I look up to or have easy access to. As a result, I feel a much closer personal connection to this book. The small essays on both peculiar and mundane things in our world seem more like conversations between a close friend that take place on a long car ride or on a lazy Thursday evening rather than the simple essays that are often placed into the collections that form a good portion of the non-fiction isle. As such, the book is engaging in a way that is quite unlike anything I've read before. And this uniqueness makes the book less of a book and more of an encounter of the author in an authentic expression of experience. I give the experience of reading the "Anthropocene Reviewed" four and a half stars

This was beautiful! Nice work, Meitar Almog :). Perfect animation for John's words.

I'm really enjoying the book so far! It reads in John's voice. It's like have the pod in your head.

Beautiful beautiful beautiful. That old vlogbrothers feeling of connectedness and inspiratiom from when I was a teenager has flooded through me again. Thank you John. 5 stars ☆☆☆☆☆

I love the way this was put together, as a long time nerdfighter, it was so lovely to return to place and memories and stories you’ve shared before. It also made me think about how I dissociate to process and how that impacts my access to memory. Thank you John.

I got a green sharpie autograph, thank you John.

Very early in my life, I noticed the absurdity of the human condition when I realized we believe these two things to be truisms. Never judge a book by it's cover. Always make a good first impression. I turned 50 last fall. I have known for a while that I love humans, but not in any naive way, more like the way my grandfather would describe. "You like someone because. You love someone although." Warts and all, Lori, warts and all

Episodes or things like this are my favorite content from you. Listening to the way you put your videos together the tone you sometimes give it, helps me with anxiety. I need to make myself a "John walking and talking" playlist of all the videos you speak like this. It would help a lot. Thank you. Also knowing what it takes for you to make videos that make me feel this calm. Makes me so thankful and proud of you for all the videos you have put out into the world like this. You help a lot of people with a lot of different things. 💕

58 seconds always hits me hard. It is a great life lesson. Same goes for "I am very small boat in very high seas" for I feel the same and it makes me seen and validated. I learnt a lot from this book. Thanks John, you have profound impact, for the better, regarding all the lives you touch.

Based on this experience of the first chapter, I think if I read the whole book I might drown in my own tears.

I remember when Allie Brosh rated items/sensations on Hyperbole and A Half, that was my first introduction to the concept of rating aspects of ones experience.

Damn, John do you ALWAYS have to make me cry?! I love your writing so much. Thank you. 😊

I was already in awe when I heard this a year ago. Now with it being animated it's a whole new experience with the visuals. Wish we could get more episodes and chapters this way. To put it simply, listening to this episode of anthropocene reviewed makes me fall in love with the world. I'm glad I live to hear it.

My copy came in the mail today!! I'm so excited! My brother is really excited to read this book too :D

The the thousands who just clicked as soon as they got the notification. Hi. You have value.

I just got the book and the smile that lit up my face when I realized I had already listened to you read the introduction was incredible. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Darn it John.... Every video you make these days leaves me in tears. You've definitely mastered that poetic melancholy.

this animation is absolutely stunning

This took my breath away.