goldfishlaser 's review for:

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

DID NOT FINISH

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I went in knowing I dont see everything eye to eye with peterson. But from what I had heard he seemed like he had some interesting ideas. I am not religious, and am an athiest. (Which peterson denies is possible, but somehow I manage. Of course this is the same guy that denies that career women can be satisfied with their lives, so he seems to have an imagination problem as far as I can tell). But I used to be christian and study the bible, so I am sometimes interested in hearing what christians have to say, maybe get a bit of protestant work ethic programmed in. I'll listen to life advice from people of many religions. I thought I could do that with peterson because until the book he seemed to have a literary and academic way of talking about the bible and its metaphors and archetypes. So of course I expected to hear some bible stuff and some psychology stuff and some metaphysical stuff. But this book in points was a bit too much like going to church for me. Kept breaking my suspension of disbelief. In the end, I was just getting a tad too bored and found that it was just impossible for me to focus on it; I gave up halfway through.