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
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.
Looks like a bookstore from Idiocracy
Oohh, expurgation, edgy.
Thank you for the new word.
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.
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."
Use a sharpie to change the title to "the subtle art of not giving a fuck at work" and keep it on your desk
Maybe they did spell it out, the publisher changed it, and the author didn’t give a fuck?
like an adult
And not like those fucking teenagers who are notorious for self-censorship 😆
Oh no the fuck word
Have you even read it?
no but the cover is all I need to judge it
I started it, and it's bad. I must've read 25 pages.
It's very poorly written, it reads like it was written by someone who only speaks English as a second language, or a teenager. With an added layer of trying to sound deep and wise.
Whatever substance there might be in there was destroyed by who terrible it was to read.
Glad to see ignorance is alive and well
It is indeed.
I have, and it was basically a curse-word ridden version of another book that was published around the same time. The "unfucked" version was better IMO, but I don't remember what it was called. I guess gimmicks really do help a book succeed.
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.
Tell me its Barnes and Noble without telling me.
Maybe it's not. However every time I go in there I see the most trash low quality books. Not to mentioned you get the vibe that every one was approved by a lawyer for being "safe". I will browse when I end up in one, but I never buy.
They should move the Surrounded By Psycopaths book on the lower shelf to be in the middle of these F*CK books
It's like more of a news stand than a book shelf, except the news is real.
Fuck this
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