I love well-placed sarcasm.

I love well-placed snark.

I dislike a continuous, grating narrator who doesn't find the right places to hit the snarky notes, preferring to let it wander unchecked.

Parts were amusing, particularly at the beginning, but it quickly grew stale. The intermixing of vastly different cultures and lumping them all together didn't quite work for me. At times it felt the information was taken out of context to increase shock value. I am not an expert on the subject, but it read very much to me like an old-timey version of a modern reality show.

I don't want my great-great-great grandchildren learning about my living habits by studying Cosmo, Sex and the City, or The Duggars. I don't want quacks being cited as our sole source of medical knowledge. It didn't feel balanced, and that's fine. It just didn't work for me.

This book wasn't a total flop, hence the two-star "I thought it was okay". I didn't completely hate it, nor did I truly like it.

It's one of those books where the takeaways will be different depending on the reader, what the reader is looking for, and the reader's mood at the time.

For me, it was a miss.

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