Gad Saad's The Parasitic Mind is an autoethnography polemic against autoethnography. If you are familiar at all with Gad Saad, you could not gain much by reading it: Though perhaps it is now the canonical source about his view on the political scene. If you have not followed Gad Saad: His family (and his school years) were at the tail end of the Jewish exodus from Lebanon, in his case, to Quebec in Canada. He is worried about the combination of the identity politics of some and head burying of others pushing North America in the direction his family fled. I noticed a disparity between one of Saad's stories that did not make the cut for The Parasitic Mind, where an ex-Lebanese Christian is antisemitic towards him, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's comparison of integration between Christians and moslems in which she found that Christian migrants integrated seemlessly. I give the book five and a half stars out of ten: Useful as a printed source on stories Gad Saad presents on other media. No boats rocked.