Wow...this is a different view on life.
The book can be summarized by the titles of the 12 chapters and rehashed in the final chapter. Clearly the author is very smart and very opinionated. He provided me with insight to many philosophers including Nietzsche, Jung, Descartes, Solzhenitsyn, and Dostoevsky. He explained bible stories including Adam and Eve, Cain and Able, the Old Testament vs. New Testament, and the meaning behind the Sermon on the Mount. He even gave good advice for relationships..."do you want to be right or do you want to have peace."
On the other hand, I take issue with many of his stated beliefs. For me he overstates the suffering of being, promotes male aggressive domination, sees Christianity as a necessary guiding light to understand good and evil, and has little trust in science and rational thought.
In reading the book I went from picturing our book club searching for meaning and truth, to thinking of the disenchanted white Americans that make up the Trump base.
The book was thought provoking, but I would not recommend it to many people, including my wife.
