Read this book!

Profound, life-affirming and most of all, a fun and rollicking ride

To quote my two-year old son: ‘Read-da-book!’

I say: ‘Profound, life-affirming and most of all, a fun and rollicking ride through complex and powerful stuff. We should all strive to one day be able to write a book of such gravitas, importance and precision.’

Inspired by Matt Pitman I’m reviewing books here, because why not? I read a lot of books and writing a little review is just part of the process.

‘Truly one of the best books l've read this year, a compelling blend of pop-culture references, insights into academic work and the realities mindsets and approaches for living a thoughtful and studied life.

Alongside the most profoundly withering and sharply precise analysis and insights into Jordan Peterson and his Icarus-like rise and fall.

Rule 2: explored the concept of the 'organic intellectual' via Gramsci and lays out clearly a way that academics should conduct their business, in public, and in a way focussed upon communicating in clear and translatable and perhaps even transferable ways.

Rule 11: was powerful moving and covers some ground around death and dying better than anything else l've ever seen set down in print before.

Throughout the book we're provided with a powerful and impactful vision of feminism and feminists, as both a response to Peterson, and as a standalone inspiring stance.

Profound, life-affirming and most of all, a fun and rollicking ride through complex and powerful stuff. We should all strive to one day be able to write a book of such gravitas, importance and precision.’

I listened to this one on Spotify and hearing it read by the author certainly added to the experience (as a side-note, normally when an author performs their own audiobook it reminds you of why we have professional audiobook voice artists - not the case here!).

You simply must read this book!

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