Trick Mirror: Reflection on Self-delusion

by Jia Tolentino

Hardcover, 303 pages

Published Oct. 30, 2019 by Random House.

ISBN:: 978-0-525-51054-3
OCLC Number:: 1088603389

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(33 reviews)

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vivi reviewed Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Not for me

3 stars

I found this wholly uninteresting. Seemed to be very focused on celebrities and privileged life. I wasn't able to find any interesting nuance, and it didn't feel very organized or coherent to me.

I just suspect it isn't for me. It just feels very allistic in a way that is incomprehensible to me as an autistic person, I guess. I can certainly imagine it appealing to someone else.

I'm not sure what else to say because I just didn't get it at all?

the_lirazel reviewed Trick Mirror: Reflection on Self-delusion by Jia Tolentino

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4 stars

Goodness gracious, Jia Tolentino can write. I am consumed with both envy and awe.

vinibaggio reviewed Trick Mirror: Reflection on Self-delusion by Jia Tolentino

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4 stars

A 4.5, fantastic book, brilliant writer.

candimisms reviewed Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

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3 stars

Love Jia Toleentino and the idea for this book, but ultimately I was underwhelmed. It was refreshing to see a prolific writer validate the reservations I have about the Internet, purportedly feminist discourses, and pop culture. Yet she would sneak her point in between much exposition, then rarely return to further develop it. It's like she summarized the ways some phenomenon was contradictory, but for a presentation such as a book report instead of analysis. I guess I would have liked to hear more from her, about what she thought and would like to propose.