caitin 's review for:

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

2.25

reflective medium-paced

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I finished this book as an exercise in critical thinking.  Peterson's arguments are messy even on points where I agree with him, I tend to disagree with how he got there.  On gender relations he looks at a biological view of women having limited mating opportunities then jumps to post women's sexual liberation where we were able to have more freedom of choice in mate and if we wanted one at all.  He ignores most of human history where women were not free to choose their partners.  This is just one example where Peterson cherry picks his evidence or sets up a strawman argument to knock down.  
I expected more.  I did not know anything about the author, his view, or this book when I picked it up other than it was popular on Goodreads.