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Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
by Mark Manson
Arg, it's really difficult for me to rate this.
This isn't a "book" in my opinion. It's more of a collection of essays, "blog posts" and articles you'd see on HuffPo (or perhaps NPR).
There are some parts of the 'book' that were well researched, provided excellent points and I thought to myself "oh wow" and "I'm going to have to read this again!!!" Then there were other parts that I was like "WHAT IS THIS?" and "WHY IS THIS HERE?"
The writing also oscillated between deplorable to somewhat academic.
There are times where it reads like a polished, academic book but more often it is ranty with slang like "Cray cray" and vulgar examples that Manson seems to slip in for shock value except it doesn't work.
Manson is also a terrible narrator. His voice isn't just bleh, but he can't even seem to properly read his own writing--he can't deliver his own jokes and punchlines. It comes out awkward and unnatural-- making his "cray cray" and other slang even more distracting.
I also kept having a revolving thought, "DAMN THIS IS SOME RICH WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE & MANSPLAINING" not that the subjects he approached where "white male privilege shit" (though there is some of that) but that he seems to overlook privilege quite a bit.
Yet there were some parts of the book that I thought were excellent, though most of them were rehashing from other outstanding books I've read such as [b:Thinking, Fast and Slow|11468377|Thinking, Fast and Slow|Daniel Kahneman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1317793965l/11468377._SX50_.jpg|16402639], Ryan Holiday/Stoicism, [b:Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress|35696171|Enlightenment Now The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress|Steven Pinker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1502223499l/35696171._SY75_.jpg|57185511] or anything by Pinkner, [b:Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard|6570502|Switch How to Change Things When Change Is Hard|Chip Heath|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1422839688l/6570502._SY75_.jpg|6763564] or anything by Chip & Dan Heath, plus Nietzsche & Plato. His last bit on AI was interesting, though I suspect that was parlayed from somewhere/someone else.
(UPDATE after more thought and discussion, this isn't a 3-star, it's a 2-star)
This isn't a "book" in my opinion. It's more of a collection of essays, "blog posts" and articles you'd see on HuffPo (or perhaps NPR).
There are some parts of the 'book' that were well researched, provided excellent points and I thought to myself "oh wow" and "I'm going to have to read this again!!!" Then there were other parts that I was like "WHAT IS THIS?" and "WHY IS THIS HERE?"
The writing also oscillated between deplorable to somewhat academic.
There are times where it reads like a polished, academic book but more often it is ranty with slang like "Cray cray" and vulgar examples that Manson seems to slip in for shock value except it doesn't work.
Manson is also a terrible narrator. His voice isn't just bleh, but he can't even seem to properly read his own writing--he can't deliver his own jokes and punchlines. It comes out awkward and unnatural-- making his "cray cray" and other slang even more distracting.
I also kept having a revolving thought, "DAMN THIS IS SOME RICH WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE & MANSPLAINING" not that the subjects he approached where "white male privilege shit" (though there is some of that) but that he seems to overlook privilege quite a bit.
Yet there were some parts of the book that I thought were excellent, though most of them were rehashing from other outstanding books I've read such as [b:Thinking, Fast and Slow|11468377|Thinking, Fast and Slow|Daniel Kahneman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1317793965l/11468377._SX50_.jpg|16402639], Ryan Holiday/Stoicism, [b:Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress|35696171|Enlightenment Now The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress|Steven Pinker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1502223499l/35696171._SY75_.jpg|57185511] or anything by Pinkner, [b:Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard|6570502|Switch How to Change Things When Change Is Hard|Chip Heath|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1422839688l/6570502._SY75_.jpg|6763564] or anything by Chip & Dan Heath, plus Nietzsche & Plato. His last bit on AI was interesting, though I suspect that was parlayed from somewhere/someone else.
(UPDATE after more thought and discussion, this isn't a 3-star, it's a 2-star)