Reviews and Comments

is it bad if i felt a LOT like Eleanor while reading this? i think i'll need to stay away from haunted houses. it was a good book, it was a bit hard for me to understand at times. im a bit simple. 

we all have parts of ourselves that we run from, that we hate. this book is helping me with the torturous work of reconciling with my own shadows. if you're struggling to see yourself as a whole and complete human being, you aren't alone. i struggle. ged does too. but we can begin healing, one step at a time.

be safe out there.  

this book has changed how i look at our primate bodies and the way we interact with the world around us. never before has a book shown me a totally different way of -being-

ive been poor for most of my life. and i remember how much we needed to rely on our small latine community. 

a section near the end made me cry. the similarities between Kropotkin's observations of mutual aid in the slums of Europe and my experiences in poor Hispanic communities made me tear up in sheer joy. i felt hope for humanity for the first time in so long. closing the book after finishing it wasn't a sorrow, but a triumph. 

Kropotkin is my grandpa now. 

The sex was always way too graphic. It's just not my thing. The world is so wild and boggled my imagination, but man, I can't get past the graphic sex. 

I went in to the book craving an American Gods-like read, but in Mexico. In the best of the book I got that, but in the worst I got a bit of a predictable "weird-boy-meets-simple-girl" type beat that I got tired of.