Even if you don't know the bible, it's a must read

After hearing many podcasts of Jordan Peterson, his familiar voice, from his own book, make you understand his meanings, making it a well completed experience.

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A fresh look and wakeup call

Loved the whole fresh look of the biblical stories (much like his lectures). I did have a hard time listening to Dr. Perterson‘s reading style (if that is the right term for it) and forceful pronouncing words, in the beginning (it felt overacted).

He soften his approach about half way into the text, this made listening and understanding more fluend and made it all worth it to have endured thus far.

It also sounded that Dr. Peterson had to contend with and brave through several colds throughout his reading, which I also have not heard in an audiobook before.

Overall, other than the performance, this was to me (like almost all of Dr. Peterson’s edicational offerings) a very helpful, insightful and illuminating book. Thank you Dr. Peterson and Pinguin publishing.

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Not Peterson's best work

I am a great fan of Dr Peterson's I have read all his books and studied Maps of Meaning. I do unfortunately have to say that this book falls of the quality of his other works.
To me Peterson is at his strongest when he is bringing together his broad knowledge on Psychology, Biology and the History of Beliefs and Faiths. This is why the inclusion of biblical stories and passages in earlier work happens flawlessly.
His former works were the culmination of decades of learning and research into concise points. It appears to me that with this book he has departed from that formula and gone more to an approach of going through and interpreting biblical texts one after the other.
So instead of a big thought being exemplified with a biblical story as in the past, here he tries to come up with big thoughts from the texts he chooses.
I feel constantly reminded of his comment on a few podcasts, that he had an AI trained on his writing to help him interpret texts when he couldn't think of anything... this is what I would say describes large parts of the books best.

Additionally since he has been touring his discoveries made in this book on all the large podcasts already long before the release of the book, the accustomed listener won't find many new things anyway.

I would go as far as to say that if you are a regular listener of his podcast appearances, you don't have to read the book.


I personally hope that he returns to a less theological and theoretical approach in favor of a more practical approach in his next book. Maybe actually together with Dr Huberman as they discussed in their shared recent Podcast.

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