The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit

by Tom Curry and Cecil Cicirello

[pamela]

I'm a big fan of Tom and Cecil's podcasts, and this book did not disappoint. It was an entertaining, well-researched and sourced look at irrational belief, why we believe it, and why it's damaging. It was informative and entertaining, however deceptively long.

Overall I enjoyed it, but there was both simultaneously too much information and not enough. I would have preferred to read more in-depth analyses of each of the topics over multiple books because it was a lot of information to cram into a single volume, and it did fill mildly rushed in places to try and cover the topic in a limited word count.

This did not detract from my appreciation of the subject matter and the skill of the execution overall, but it turned it from a five-star read into a four-star read for me.