I have now finished reading "Shop Class as Soul Craft" and I think I would recommend it to anyone who is unlikely to be sympathetic to its position and steer clear anyone who is likely to be sympathetic.
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But it is inextricably intertwined with the author's view of the world, which I think is damagingly wrong in a lot of ways, and wrapped up in an extreme attachment to a lot of very conventional views of masculinity, and I find I don't like the author very much as a person.
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I read his The World Beyond Your Head earlier this year and found it the same mix of insightful and intensely frustrating
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Interesting. People recommended The World Beyond Your Head to me as a bit less so than Shop Class as Soul Craft, so that's good calibration thanks! (I don't personally feel the need to read more of him, but I was wondering whether to recommend that in preference)
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(Hm, apparently Twitter decided to drop my second tweet). I didn't exactly find the book frustrating - I think I decided to treat it as a view into a person rather than a source of knowledge. I didn't like that person, but I could still find learning about them interesting.
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