Review of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life' on 'Goodreads'
How many f*cks were there in this book, did anyone count them?
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2016
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by Mark Manson
3 stars
(30 reviews)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life is a 2016 nonfiction self-help book by American blogger and author Mark Manson. The book covers Manson's belief that life's struggles give it meaning and argues that typical self-help books offer meaningless positivity which is neither practical nor helpful, thus improperly approaching the problems many individuals face. It was a New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller.
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3 stars
I am older than the target audience for this book. Some of the people that I have worked with in the past few years, people in the 20 - 30ish range, who casually use words such as the last one in the title of this book in a business setting, would be much more appropriate readers for it. So, what's good about this book? Well, I would say that it mostly does give good advice. Most, if not all, of that good advice is drawn from Buddhism (which the author semi-acknowledges). What's not so good about this book? For someone like me, who did not come of age in a time when it was considered natural and proper to use some form of the words fck, sht or ss in every sentence, the language of the book is distracting. It reminds me of some of the boys in …
I am older than the target audience for this book. Some of the people that I have worked with in the past few years, people in the 20 - 30ish range, who casually use words such as the last one in the title of this book in a business setting, would be much more appropriate readers for it. So, what's good about this book? Well, I would say that it mostly does give good advice. Most, if not all, of that good advice is drawn from Buddhism (which the author semi-acknowledges). What's not so good about this book? For someone like me, who did not come of age in a time when it was considered natural and proper to use some form of the words fck, sht or ss in every sentence, the language of the book is distracting. It reminds me of some of the boys in my junior high school who thought that including the word fck in every sentence made them seem more mature, though it really just made their speech less precise. So, for me, that's a negative in this book. For younger readers, perhaps it is the only thing that will get them to read some of this Buddhist wisdom. If so, then that is fine with me. Personally, I would rather read a more traditional, and less profane, book on Buddhism.
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3 stars
I'm not one for self help books but this one was tolerable. The beginning and last two chapters are good. The rest is the same self help stuff you can find everywhere but with a search and replace of "Care about" to "Give a F*ck" on the same old texts.
The best idea I drew from the book is that being surrounded by experiences (filtered trough social media) you get pushed to care about much more useless stuff than it's healthy.
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3 stars
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