I think I would've liked this book more if it hadn't been written by Chua. She only came off as very unfunny and lacking self-awareness, while making grandiose blanket statements about parenting and ignoring all the benefits her and her husband's money, prestige, and power had brought their children even as they continuously reaped said benefits (as well as the benefits she reaped from her own parents, but alas) and instead attributed their success only to her (grey-scale abusive) parenting style. The topic itself I believe is too nuanced for Chua's black/white dichotomic views.