A review by pzdrnk
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

1.0

I can't overstate how overwritten and underresearched this book is. I only finished it in the hope that it might redeem itself at some point, as I quite enjoyed reading Cultish earlier this year. The author's voice feels very different in this one, it's as if she came up with a few generally popular topics and then asked someone else to write a few uninspired pages building on those. The leaps she makes are eye-roll worthy. There is almost as much talk of cults as in her actual book about cults. Some of the chapters could literally have been essays I'd have written for uni with lots of big empty words, making up the word count as best as I could.