The subtle art of not giving a f*ck pisses me off every fucking time I see it. If you didn't give a fuck, you would spell out fuck like an adult.
Maybe they did spell it out, the publisher changed it, and the author didn’t give a fuck?
Having read a interview with the author, that's exactly what happened. Unless I'm mixing book? Idk it's been a while
Oh no the fuck word
A former boss bought me a copy of that book as a Christmas gift (instead of giving out bonuses). It took everything I had to not say "Wow, you really don't know me at all."
like an adult
And not like those fucking teenagers who are notorious for self-censorship 😆
Have you even read it?
I haven't because I don't give a fuck about it
Oh honey, your ignorance is showing. Don’t comment on books you haven’t read.
The If Books Could Kill podcast did an episode on The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck and were unimpressed. IIRC they at least thought it was just kind of shitty rather than actively promoting bad ideas.
YouTube link (sorry): https://youtu.be/Ms6-H9LiWdA
I read it and found it rather revealing. Some of the ideas sound obvious in retrospect, but hearing them laid out like that helps. It was quite funny too.
It's called a series, and they aren't that bad. I've only dabbled with one of them and can't remember which one it was (we have a free library at work). If you aren't aware, print media isn't exactly a hot commodity these days, so being eye catching or "sassy" helps get traction. Funny story though, you aren't supposed to judge a book by it's cover, but by the contents inside.
It's complete trash. I was gifted one of them and it was one of the worst books I've ever tried to read, just painfully bad writing by someone with very little life experience.
The subtle art of not giving a fuck.... but still feeling you have to censor yourself
Looks like a bookstore from Idiocracy
Before reading the orange one, which is the first of the three, I really didn't think I could ever like it, purely based off the title. I'm also really not a self-help book type of person. I also don't know necessarily that I got much actual "help" from the book, I also wasn't really looking for any, I just read it because it was recommended to me from a good friend. My final caveat to the following opinion of that book is that I haven't read the other two.
All that being said, the subtle art of not giving a fuck introduced me to some ideas, conceptually, about humankind and our nature and the way we behave in our lives that blew my mind and changed the way I thought of the world and the behaviors of people around me. Very keen observations and assertions in there that had never really occurred to me, functionally. Maybe, it came to me at a time when I really needed to hear something from it? Regardless, it does hold a unique place for me in my mind, and affects my ideas about being a human being and I very much value that growth. Can't necessarily speak to the prose positively or negatively, but I'm thinking generally self-help books aren't necessarily masterworks of literature.
I feel like 90% of any bookstore I've been to has been self help (and/or loony new age stuff), biographies of / stuff written by politicians, and military "history" books.
Most of the rest are young adult novels and smut with some guy's chest on the cover.
They stock what sells. It says more about the general population than it does about a bookstore trying to make rent
It's because p much noone reads books just for the joy of it anymore. I don't either, and i actually love reading, one of my biggest interests growing up, classic 'binge about 500 pages in a week' kid. It's taken me 3 months to reread the first LOTR book, took me 3 weeks as a teen.
Brain broke, what do 🤷
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