Reviews with content warning for Suicidal thoughts - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Bleep: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Probably my favourite self-help book, i’ll never stop recommending it to people. Definitely helped me in a lot of aspects of my life. I could go on and on about this for just read it!

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challenging dark emotional funny inspiring slow-paced

3.0

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Weirdly comforting. I listened to the audiobook over several days while multitasking; I was able to understand, question, and accept what was said easily. It’s necessary to sometimes hear these life-lessons reminders every once in a while.

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informative reflective medium-paced

2.0

It had some good lessons. There were many instances that I felt the author didn't know what he was talking about though. For instance, he mentioned a case about teenagers with OCD and how that all that is needed to seemingly fix it is to have willpower; which in fact takes way more than that. Often his examples were gratuitous and appeare to be showy, braggy. And, the author was blind to his privilege and didn't even give good enough advice to people with his privilege as a middle class white man.

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informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

I'm not really sure what I thought of this book. There were some bad moments and then some good pieces of advice. Maybe I'm not the best to judge because I don't often read self help books (is that what this is??), but it seemed very middle of the road to me.

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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.

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