glynnn 's review for:

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

4.0

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Peterson can be enthusing, inspiring, invigorating and insightful...and occasionally infuriating. Very much a 'Marmite person', he's always challenging and forcing you into think hard about what resonates or what bugs you about his narrative. Whether it be homespun truisms or something more abstract, his allegories have relevance and agency. This book confronts hard truths and seeks responses to important questions, requiring careful marshalling of thoughts and meticulous attention to points of agreement or divergence. And thinking though why you think differently and disagree, or why you are entirely comfortable with his blunt, sometimes harsh, expositions - well, that's one of the joys of the book.