Review of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
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.
Review of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' on 'LibraryThing'
1 star
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.
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 www.goodreads.com/book/show/35805861-a-false-report
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.
Review of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck' on 'Storygraph'
1 star
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.
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 www.goodreads.com/book/show/35805861-a-false-report
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.
Review of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
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.
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 www.goodreads.com/book/show/35805861-a-false-report
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.
Review of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
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.
Review of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
First, the title tells all: If you have issues with the F-bomb peppering every other sentence, along with lots of other coarse language, this book will be unreadable for you.
Okay, still here? Well, it started out gangbusters. Really good, interesting, different.
By the end, however, I was pretty weary of the guy, and I kept thinking, "Gosh, he is SO young." Things he breathlessly reveals about Life seem pretty obvious to me (at over sixty years in).
And I think they also would be to anyone who has ever had even a passing flirtation with Buddhism, especially Zen.
Still, his anecdotes, when not grating with a weirdly self-deprecating egotism ("Let me tell you some MORE ways that I used to be an asshole..") are fresh, sometimes surprising, and often instructive.
It especially might be of interest to people in the counseling or other therapeutic professions, since he does a β¦
First, the title tells all: If you have issues with the F-bomb peppering every other sentence, along with lots of other coarse language, this book will be unreadable for you.
Okay, still here? Well, it started out gangbusters. Really good, interesting, different.
By the end, however, I was pretty weary of the guy, and I kept thinking, "Gosh, he is SO young." Things he breathlessly reveals about Life seem pretty obvious to me (at over sixty years in).
And I think they also would be to anyone who has ever had even a passing flirtation with Buddhism, especially Zen.
Still, his anecdotes, when not grating with a weirdly self-deprecating egotism ("Let me tell you some MORE ways that I used to be an asshole..") are fresh, sometimes surprising, and often instructive.
It especially might be of interest to people in the counseling or other therapeutic professions, since he does a wonderful job of shredding pop-culture self-help wisdom.
(Or you might want to secretly leave a copy on the doorstop of your favorite pity-party enthusiast).
Along those lines, I liked "If You Meet the Buddha On the Road, Kill Him," by Sheldon Kopp better. Or "Be Here Now," for that matter.
So, my take was that it's pretty good, but by the ending ("And Then You Die"), I rather felt the book had, too.
Review of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2 Book Series) 1)' on 'Goodreads'