[jl2718]

Everybody recommends it for no particular reason, and then I read one anonymous post ripping it apart in detail. I’m strongly inclined toward believing the latter and massively discounting most people’s opinion as unfounded, assuming they didn’t read it, and are just trying to convince others that they did. Is this the right way to think about this?

[rwnspace]

Being charitable, you could say at least part of the former are experiencing confirmation bias - that they enjoyed reading a different take on their existing knowledge - and cannot be arbiters of whether the book imparts anything useful to those without that knowledge.