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A review by evaraymond
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
Did not finish book.
dnf-ed it after the example with a stalker girl...
First half of the book was pretty informative, I’ve underlined a lot of stuff and during the day 1 of reading started to rethink my attitude to the way I see things. Hope appeared: maybe I can control my anxiety by controlling what I get anxious about.
I liked the ideas of being able to overcome the painful process to achieve something, but disagree with a lot of stuff as well: Love should not bring suffer. Work and suffering are different things. Living in total suffering is so unbearable and sounds super depressing, to be honest.
Determining the values is a good thing but when it comes to responsibilities and choice, author sounds lowkey judgy and entitled.
When it came to sexist examples and the whole “falsely accused” thing, it became hard for me to think about this book seriously. After each example with men and women I realized that author mostly thought of women as objects and objects of love: they always think of buying things and how to get married in his examples whereas men are seen as hardworking and wanting to achieve their career goals. That was upsetting. Of course, some women can value their marriage, there is nothing bad about that, but there was no example of a woman being able to think about something else.
Originally I was going to give 3 stars, but since I didn’t finish it, I’m not going to rate it
First half of the book was pretty informative, I’ve underlined a lot of stuff and during the day 1 of reading started to rethink my attitude to the way I see things. Hope appeared: maybe I can control my anxiety by controlling what I get anxious about.
I liked the ideas of being able to overcome the painful process to achieve something, but disagree with a lot of stuff as well: Love should not bring suffer. Work and suffering are different things. Living in total suffering is so unbearable and sounds super depressing, to be honest.
Determining the values is a good thing but when it comes to responsibilities and choice, author sounds lowkey judgy and entitled.
When it came to sexist examples and the whole “falsely accused” thing, it became hard for me to think about this book seriously. After each example with men and women I realized that author mostly thought of women as objects and objects of love: they always think of buying things and how to get married in his examples whereas men are seen as hardworking and wanting to achieve their career goals. That was upsetting. Of course, some women can value their marriage, there is nothing bad about that, but there was no example of a woman being able to think about something else.
Originally I was going to give 3 stars, but since I didn’t finish it, I’m not going to rate it