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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson, Mark Manson
9 reviews
cynic_rising's review against another edition
Author spent too much time complaining about past relationships, touting misogynistic viewpoints, and talking about jizz. This seemed more about overcompensating for his past than anything else. The first book I've ever DNF'd.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content
aaronmarkey's review against another edition
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
I don't know how to rate self-help books, so I'm going to skip the stars.
It's quite good, much better than I'd expect from books of this genre. It's a really simple message of self-responsibility, respect, and managing the aspects of life you care about. Frankly, it's a really great, eye-opening book for a specific audience. I won't say anything in it is novel. But it does take aspects of various ancient philosophy and makes it approachable for a modern audience. A quick read and highly impactful in its messaging.
Recommend, even for people skeptical of self-help stuff. The author is/was(?) a self-help PUA type of person, so the content is suburban white dude coded -- very much hit or miss for readers.
It's quite good, much better than I'd expect from books of this genre. It's a really simple message of self-responsibility, respect, and managing the aspects of life you care about. Frankly, it's a really great, eye-opening book for a specific audience. I won't say anything in it is novel. But it does take aspects of various ancient philosophy and makes it approachable for a modern audience. A quick read and highly impactful in its messaging.
Recommend, even for people skeptical of self-help stuff. The author is/was(?) a self-help PUA type of person, so the content is suburban white dude coded -- very much hit or miss for readers.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content
op3's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Really good book, it really did touch on some deeper points and behaviors I didn’t realize affected me so deeply.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Violence
Moderate: Child death and Misogyny
Minor: Sexual content
The book touches on dark themes, it’s the self help book that doesn’t fuck around, so don’t think too much is gonna be left out.sh543's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Deadnaming, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
lovesbug787's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
It is somewhat repetitive but gets the point across. Gives a lot of good information
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Infidelity, and Mental illness
Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Classism
Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and War
Talks about a lot of uncomfortable or unfortunate situations as examples for ways to change life. They are brief for the most part but are covered and may be unsuitable for some peoplemiratrix's review against another edition
slow-paced
1.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny
Minor: Cursing, Sexism, and Sexual content
hussainweb's review against another edition
funny
informative
fast-paced
3.0
I found this book to be a good summary for many other books that I have read but it's a tiresome read for me. I much preferred other books that went into detail on the same points (The Earned Life, Four Thousand Weeks, etc) and didn't have to resort to language to make a point. Still, I recognize there is an audience for this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism and Sexual content
shetland_pone's review against another edition
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
2023: Every time I reread this book I feel differently about it, to some extent. Parts of it are contradictory and I think the quality decreases as the book continues, but the first few chapters are useful. Choosing your pain, responsibility and fault being different things, accepting that being average is okay, etc. But once it gets past that point it seems like he just wants to brag about his previous sexual escapades. I guess he's trying to come across as honest, relatable, and vulnerable by writing about his past and where he felt he went wrong, but instead it just seems like he's screaming I'M FUCKABLE, I SWEAR at us all.
2022: Still an immensely useful book to me. I don't think Manson is always right, especially as it seems as if he's never experienced systemic discrimination, but I do think he has a lot of good points. Maybe one day I'll stop blocking out the bits I don't want to hear lol.
2022: Still an immensely useful book to me. I don't think Manson is always right, especially as it seems as if he's never experienced systemic discrimination, but I do think he has a lot of good points. Maybe one day I'll stop blocking out the bits I don't want to hear lol.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Chronic illness, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
eleanorjmca's review against another edition
challenging
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
2.0
There are a few good insights buried in this book, once you get past the annoying writing style. But the message is often confused and sometimes outright contradicted - the central idea is that a good life is one lived in accordance with "good values", but exactly what makes a value good is unclear and seems to change chapter to chapter. Why did the Japanese soldier who lived life entirely according to his code of honour and loyalty have "shitty values"? Similarly, the chapter on mortality strongly criticises "immortality projects" but then says that your legacy is the single most important thing to consider in life. While the central concept - that choosing what you want to focus on in life and ignoring what's not important - holds, I'm not sure that's revolutionary advice in itself and was expecting more detail on how to judge what's important. Still, there are some thought experiments here that may be of use to some people, if you can get past the irony of a book that constantly disparages the "entitled" and selfish while espousing a strikingly self-centred philosophy; high individualism drips from every page. I found it challenging to finish.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Grief
Minor: Drug use and Sexual content
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