These are quite literally stereotypical tropes as stories. Then justifying it as abuse towards children. This isn't necessarily what readers have come to expect from Jordan Peterson's work. His prior books include a deep (and admittedly fairly dry) academic text on mythology and belief structures and two works that fit within (even as they rise above) the self-help genre. This is something entirely different: a short collection of twenty-six brief poems, each of which is accompanied by an illustration by Juliette Fogra. Let's create a hypothetical scenario where you and your spouse are shopping for child-safe content. We're going with a male / female coupling because statistically speaking if you are on the LGBTQ+ spectrum or a single parent of any kind you will probably dismiss the book outright.

It’s promised as “poetry about the justice and darkness of humanity,” and it reads about as deep as Ben Shapiro’s novels.Let's put aside the fact that this poem is about an ugly child. Again, this could be the topic of a good work of literature. I'm more concerned about its utter meaninglesness. Is there a story here? Where is even the tragedy that was promised to us? Did anything happened to Katie or this is just Jordan Peterson being mean? On the formal level, notice the easy rhymes, clumsy structure, unimaginative word choice... Yes, this poem is just bad.

For real. At least 3 of the poems are about children being sexually assaulted and for why? Because the parents had non-traditional values. That’s it. There’s no deeper message. There’s no “poetry about injustice and depth of humanity.” For an author who claims to be a counseling psychologist, the concept of trauma is poorly handled here. Which gives further credence as to why this person shut down their counseling practice and was let go of their professor job. by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Constance Garnett (translator), Helen Zimmern, Jordan B. Peterson, and Leon Trost This may be one of the worst books I've ever read. It's soulless and poorly written by someone with seemingly no knowledge of nor passion for poetry; the rhyme scheme is far too inconsistent for what is supposed to be a coherent collection, there is no attempt at properly utilising meter and rhythm, other than some sporadic and poor attempts at alliteration no real poetic techniques are used. This book is not so much a collection of poems as promised in its description, but rather a single poem with 26 unrelated stanzas about dark, troubled, or disturbing children’s lives whose names align with the alphabet. It promises to be as dark as grim fairy tales, but at least those had a story. Those had a message. This is so very obvious pandering.Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, self-help writer, cultural critic and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance.

The real horror here, is that the description to sell the book is longer and more thought out than the “book” itself. Each verse has a simple rhyme pattern and uses lots of alliteration. Many of the rhymes don't really work. Like he rhymes "own/groaned" "them/men". Some nice word choices with the alliterations to demonstrate a large vocabulary.I also don't care -at least, not in regards to this book- about Peterson's ideology or questionable ideas about parenting. There are way better poets with way worse ideas. Here, I just want to talk about the quality of Peterson's writing. Let's consider one of the most anodyne poems in his book: Peterson has the gall to compare his work to the likes of Edward Gorey and Neil Gaiman but that is an absolute insult to their creative genius and consistent hard work. This alphabetical collection of four sentence rhymes revels in the torture of children with no purpose or payoff. The author-- a licensed psychologist from clown college-- clearly has a disdain for his patients, particularly youths, and secretly practices on the belief that they deserve the abuse they have endured. Peterson is a narcissist with aspirations of eugenics. Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson - Our Carnivore Diet : How to Cure Depression and Disease with Meat Only: Revised Transcripts and Blogposts. Featuring Dr. Shawn Baker