A review by ladykatka
The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

reflective medium-paced

0.25

This book should have been my first dnf of the year. I hated this book. It was boring and tedious to read and I disagreed with pretty much everything it had to say. The closer I got to the end the longer it was taking me to read it because I had to keep putting it down due to its boringness. And I am not convinced that the philosopher actually convinced that young person to agree with him. Even two pages towards the end. He still didn't agree and then suddenly he agrees at the very end even though he was confused by everything the whole time? I don't believe it. It just had to end that way because you had to convince the young person that the philosopher was right even though he's clearly not. I also did not enjoy how this was written like a conversation because it got very tedious and boring when reading it because there's no plot. There's no real novel here. It's just reading a conversation between two people for 260 pages.