Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

11 reviews

shortattentionspan's review against another edition

challenging inspiring medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Cultural appropriation and Violence

sh543's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Deadnaming, and Death

battlecactus's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

If you’re easily offended by anything, I think you should read a different book. This read is bold, direct and uses language most people nowadays can’t handle. If you have a bit of distance to yourself and are open minded enough to read something that you might find uncomfortable, you’ll find an excellent book that makes you think and lets you see a different perspective on some things. 
I do not agree with everything that’s written in this book. There are certain things I really was surprised by. Still, it’s probably one of the best books I’ve ever read in this category and I wish I’ve read it earlier in my life. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Bullying, Sexism, Addiction, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Death

Harsh language, in-your-face, difficult topics

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 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Death

Moderate: Classism, Addiction, Child death, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Body shaming, Sexual content, Sexism, Suicide, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

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 people

essentialnpc's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

damiscous's review against another edition

inspiring fast-paced

2.5

I came very close to just not finishing this book, but, I bought it, so I felt obligated to finish it. 
Somewhere around 40% through, it just didn't seem to be as interesting. By then, the novelty of cussing in a self-help book wore off, and it was harder to pay attention to the ranting. One thing though: the author does make excellent use of anecdotes, save for the

Romeo and Juliet

one, though the work would also largely benefit from not just saying X and Y happened, but maybe showing some data or citations or anything to add credibility. Some of the jokes are distasteful - I know, dark humor, but it's not even very funny. Dark humor is supposed to funny. Some of the things written felt more like they were added for shock value, and it largely took away from the experience.
I must say, the final chapter did really wrap up nicely. Not because it was almost over, but because the author wrote about the topic in a way that one could tell was highly personal and with depth. Though the final chapter didn't make up for the other 40% that didn't land well with me, it was a somewhat satisfying end to the book.
Overall, I wouldn't reread or recommend this book, personally. Despite the hype and recommendations I received in regards to this book, it didn't live up to it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Mass/school shootings, Panic attacks/disorders, and Addiction

Minor: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Child death

pidgepodge's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was a truly interesting and informative book. It challenges your opinions on how to achieve and what to put energy into. It’s a really hard book to explain, but a highly recommended read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Addiction and Suicide

roaze's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

as an avid overthinker, i didn't believe this book could possibly tell or teach me anything i didn't already know. that this would be another one of those generic "stay positive and don't act like an asshole!" type of self-help books, but oh my goodness, was i wrong.

hilarious and actually genuine, this book is packed with truthful advice and helpful anecdotes about how to deal with life and all of the stupid shit that worries us way too much on a day-to-day basis.

and if you're thinking: "my life is going great, i don't need a self-help book" then you're 1) probably not even reading this, and 2) very wrong. this one is for everyone, not only for the depressed, the sad, the hopeless. this book is for everyone, because it talks about how we as humans and individuals can become better at dealing with our bullshit and start giving less fucks about unimportant, time-consuming subjects. 

everyone should read this book. end of story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Death, Drug abuse, and Toxic relationship

heyitsgiulia's review

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

5/5 this book was the definition for me of “the right book at the right time”. I needed it. I don’t think that is revolutionary, but it spoke to my soul (relevant is the fact that I listened to the audiobook). Nothing to say, highly recommend it if you need a little push to live your life at the fullest 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction