Cheyenne Thornton’s Reviews > Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World > Status Update

I think I just don’t like his writing style fr.

“Enough with the abstractions. How about this:”

“Okay, my philosophy degree is getting the best of me. Let’s reel it back in.”

“Plus, she understands this (…) and won’t bore you with a philosophy lecture.”

It’s like he’s breaking the fourth wall and it’s driving me crazy!! Thanks, I hate it!!

Hamilton and Panic?! I’m sat!!!

“Hamilton is one of the greatest storytelling triumphs of the modern era.” Well, yes!

Bored

He said that we’ll come back to a topic in ch. 8 and I haven’t got past ch. 2 in almost 4 months…🫩

“We all have a stake in society, which means we all have a role in improving it” so true, king

“The fact that we can’t even have safety in our classrooms (…) learning that democracy can’t even stop us from getting fucking murdered?” I like this kid. King, you lost your crown to him (David Hogg)

The Cassandra analogy was such a stretch. What did that greek mythology legend have to do with finding flaws in other people or being disagreeable 🙄

“Just look at Andrew Yang, who nearly skipped out on being the front person for his own presidential campaign.”

Uh…he didn’t win… (Yes I continued reading and he said that right after lol)

I’m enjoying the AJR anecdotes

Amused by the AJR lyrics titling the sections

UGH THIS BOOK IS SUCH A SLOG!!!

“As a kid…in 2013” the absolute whiplash I got from reading that in the foreword lol I’m only three years older, but still

This is gonna be a slog, I know it. I nodded off probably twenty times in the first four pages. Is the book boring, or am I just hitting the 3pm slump in the workday? Let’s find out.

I don’t want to read this at ALL lol but I feel like I must: as an AJR stan