An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

This is a…cute, book. That’s the only way I can really characterize it.

It’s a small book. Every two-page spread represents one or more logical fallacies. The left page is a description, and the right page is a drawing meant to illustrate the fallacy.

The drawings are of anthropomorphized animals. Honestly, I didn’t think they were very illustrative of the fallacy. They’re best considered simply as art, which is weird since “illustrated” is in the title.

The text is pretty good. Each page covers one or more arguments, since they tend to run together.

I appreciate someone doing something interesting, but it’s not a serious book really, in any sense. And I didn’t think the illustrations were that great. It’s too light of a book for an adult, and too heavy for kids, even though the art seems to be targeted to younger readers.

I don’t know what to do with this one.

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