Incredibly thoughtful, but also just profoundly okay. I'm not quite sure what kind of book I was expecting going into this, but I was delighted to find how it is an inspection of humanity and how it interacts with nature, history, culture, and each other—ratings included. I can't say I was entertained, enlightened, or moved by any of the essays. My entire experience of listening to the audiobook was mostly just "oh that's interesting" or "that's an interesting takeaway from so-and-so observation". I will say, however, that I'd like to write like John Green does—in this book specifically, as I hated TFIOS. I'd like to record my own personal musings on my life and experiences the way he does. Despite my mediocre experience with this book, at the very least it inspired me to spend more time writing.