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merelymyr 's review for:
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
by Jordan B. Peterson
I decided to read this book by the request of a family member. I knew of Jordan Peterson and had watched some of his YouTube videos and was generally not impressed and put off by many of his statements. But I decided to power through and read this ENTIRE book.
I wanted to like it or at least find some value to SOME of the content. I did not.
I wanted to give it at least 2 stars when I was about half-way through, because some of the stories got a chuckle out of me here and there.
Rule 11… or rather, the asinine and misogynistic explanation of it put me over the edge.
I finished, but have found little to no substance in his writing. Peterson does not communicate clearly - strangely breaking one of his own rules. He speaks through anecdotes, literary references and metaphors, which allows his own opinion or statement to never truly be nailed down. Of course, you could just be misunderstanding what he meant by the reference to the lobsters or Genesis.
In general, this seems to be a man who likes to hear himself talk and wants to convince people he is more intelligent than they are. In fact, he specifically says that we, the readers, do not know what we think/believe etc. HE, however, knows. He must be superior to us, if that is true and thus we MUST believe the BS he is peddling.
If you like his YouTube dumpster fires, … go ahead and read. It's more of the same. If you do not, spare yourself the lost time.
I wanted to like it or at least find some value to SOME of the content. I did not.
I wanted to give it at least 2 stars when I was about half-way through, because some of the stories got a chuckle out of me here and there.
Rule 11… or rather, the asinine and misogynistic explanation of it put me over the edge.
I finished, but have found little to no substance in his writing. Peterson does not communicate clearly - strangely breaking one of his own rules. He speaks through anecdotes, literary references and metaphors, which allows his own opinion or statement to never truly be nailed down. Of course, you could just be misunderstanding what he meant by the reference to the lobsters or Genesis.
In general, this seems to be a man who likes to hear himself talk and wants to convince people he is more intelligent than they are. In fact, he specifically says that we, the readers, do not know what we think/believe etc. HE, however, knows. He must be superior to us, if that is true and thus we MUST believe the BS he is peddling.
If you like his YouTube dumpster fires, … go ahead and read. It's more of the same. If you do not, spare yourself the lost time.