Marta answers “Reading this book at the moment. Did...”

A Goodreads user asked this question about Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence:

Reading this book at the moment. Did anyone else find the first few chapters off-putting, where she tried not to laugh when a man mispronounced "penis" (I mean, he obviously speaks two languages so he's doing better than most of us), and felt "disgusted" by the masturbation machine he made? I did not know people in her line of work were so judgemental. Hoping it improves as I was really impressed by Anna on podcasts.

Marta I've just finished this book (audible) and I had the exact same impression at first - the bad accents especially annoyed me. And I really didn't like …moreI've just finished this book (audible) and I had the exact same impression at first - the bad accents especially annoyed me. And I really didn't like how judgy she sounded, especially when she led with the proclamation that 'most readers will be shocked by the extreme examples'. I was ready to stop listening once she got to the romance novels and I only persevered because I liked her on the Rich Roll podcast. In my opinion the book does get a bit better later on (fortunately for the listeners, most of her other patients are not foreigners), but overall it did not live up to my expectations.(less)

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