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Jordan Peterson: 12 Rules for Life (2018, Random House Canada) 2 stars

Review of '12 Rules for Life' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

(audiobook, read by author)
DNF - got as far as rule 4 and gave up when the author was shrieking at me that I couldn't possibly be an atheist if I had values.

It is isn't completely awful. It has some merit, with some reasonable observations on taking responsibility for our lives. But most of it is really of use only for people who want someone other than their mother to tell them to sit up straight and think positively. Possibly if they want that person to be Ayn Rand.

Each chapter veers wildly between personal anecdote (usually about people he used to know and now looks down), vague hand-wavy directives and occasional ill thought through attempts at concrete examples.

I suspect the author is laughing (all the way to the bank) at anyone who takes this seriously, and probably at the rest of us who waste anything more than the smallest amount of our time on it.