English language
Published May 2, 2022 by HarperCollins Publishers.
Sometimes I wasn't quite sure where it was going or if it was ever going to get there at all, but I liked his tone and way of thinking, and in the end I think it's cohesive and very intriguing. Would recommend.
I pretty much learned nothing from this book, sadly.
The first 2 chapters were promising, but then it just went down hill. It was very repititive and I can not hear the word โentitledโ again.
I canโt help but feel that this entire book could have been on one sheet of paper.
Incredibly insightful with lessons, thoughts and ideas across every page. Though the title is crass, it really speaks to about living life to your values and things you truly care about and how you go about doing it. It isn't trying to say don't care about things and tell people to screw off, but to find ways to live your life, while still owning up to your own failures and mistakes.
This is not a book in which to find any deep thought. There are some fine common-sense bits, but that common sense is packaged in much the same way L. Ron Hubbard packages his wisdom-isms in his own irony-quote, self-help books, irony-unquote. (The best news, I guess, is that Mark Manson never started a cult.)
There are a few items in this book I would have cherry-picked for myself as a confused twenty-year-old young man, but would that advice back then actually have helped? Doubtful. There are much better books than this I should have read. This just feels like something written by a recovering, secret, pick-up-artist/men's-rights-activist.
The author really wants you to know he's had sex with a lot of very beautiful women, all while telling you that really powerful people rarely brag.
If F*cks were stars, I would give this book none.
To the point.
This is an amazing book.
I watched a random video YouTube recommended about the "Do Something" principle, which led me to this book. It turned out I had already read Mark Manson's other book - Models. Thinking this would be a lame, feel-good, increase self-esteem piece of fluff, I still picked it up. To my utter surprise, this was a great book, it asked some really good questions and had some great ideas, which I won't spoil but summarizing here for you.
Overall, entertaining and useful, what more can a guy ask of a book?
As someone who often claims not to give a fuck, you mught think I don't have anything more to learn on the subject, but this book raises a lot of good points and gave me a lot to think about.
An okay read but a little too wishy washy for my liking. It's basically some Buddhism shredded up against a young person's life experience. I didn't gain much from it.
This book was really interesting and humorous, until I spotted this line:
As she describes in her autobiography, My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, throughout the 1980s, many women accused male family members of sexual abuse only to turn around and recant years later.
Although false reports of rape turn up about as often as lightning strikes humans, that line turned me right off this book. Right off. It's just like finding out there's feces in your food. The author should read
Still, I finished this book.
There are quite a few interesting bits in the book for the first fifth of it, but then it veers into quasi-science, with no references to claims made. "Research has been done on," et cetera.
This book was really interesting and humorous, until I spotted this line:
As she describes in her autobiography, My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, throughout the 1980s, many women accused male family members of sexual abuse only to turn around and recant years later.
This book was really interesting and humorous, until I spotted this line:
As she describes in her autobiography, My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, throughout the 1980s, many women accused male family members of sexual abuse only to turn around and recant years later.
Although false reports of rape turn up about as often as lightning strikes humans, that line turned me right off this book. Right off. It's just like finding out there's feces in your food. The author should read
Still, I finished this book.
There are quite a few interesting bits in the book for the first fifth of it, but then it veers into quasi-science, with no references to claims made. "Research has been done on," et cetera.
This book was really interesting and humorous, until I spotted this line:
As she describes in her autobiography, My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, throughout the 1980s, many women accused male family members of sexual abuse only to turn around and recant years later.
This book was really interesting and humorous, until I spotted this line:
As she describes in her autobiography, My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, throughout the 1980s, many women accused male family members of sexual abuse only to turn around and recant years later.
Although false reports of rape turn up about as often as lightning strikes humans, that line turned me right off this book. Right off. It's just like finding out there's feces in your food. The author should read
Still, I finished this book.
There are quite a few interesting bits in the book for the first fifth of it, but then it veers into quasi-science, with no references to claims made. "Research has been done on," et cetera.
This book was really interesting and humorous, until I spotted this line:
As she describes in her autobiography, My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, throughout the 1980s, many women accused male family members of sexual abuse only to turn around and recant years later.
He has this really annoying thread of "millennials are subject to entitlement culture," but the stoicism and targeted effort concepts are refreshing to hear from a person who speaks more of a younger person's language.
A must-read for anyone interested in finding their own issues and getting on from them.
Not much help to find for depressed people, however, but it is great nonetheless.
A rehash of other popular self improvement books from the last decade with some personal anecdotes and snark.
The key word is Subtle.
The title is a little misleading but it does pull you in. The subtleties described with profanities are where this book shines. Sometimes I found myself needing to use this book's lessons in order to listen to the message without pre-judging too much. There are some (non-profane) word choices I would often disagree with. However, word choice doesn't really take away from the overall message. I think this is a good book. A fun romp of a self-help book at the very least.
