Indeed, Greene’s tortured view of historical events is so bad that my History students would easily see the faults. They are a mix up of opinions and weird interpretations of stories and alleged moments of history which bear little resemblance to real life. Worse than that (for with my historian’s hat on, you see the worst and most stupid of humanity on a regular basis and so it is no big deal) Greene writes absolute rubbish and passes it off as fact. Instead, I got to see the very worst of human nature – something I can get more than my fill of just by going on Twitter and reading the myriad right-wing comments I see every time. I can’t recall is ‘The 48 Laws of Power’ was recommended to me, or if it just kept coming up on social media, or if I just came across it and thought “why not?” I can imagine it might just have been the latter as, with my psychologist’s hat on, it is just about in my line of interest and I certainly read it hoping I would get some insights into how people tick which might be useful. I do try to read an eclectic range of books and push myself to read recommended books I wouldn’t normally bother with. This book by Robert Greene is, without a doubt, one of the very worst books I’ve ever read.
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