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Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
by Mark Manson
I picked this book out of irony (re: 2020), but clearly I'm not the target demographic.
Manson's writing starts off charmingly conversational but eventually starts to grate on you, like a cross between some teen WIDPSC competitor's persuasive speech and a long winded Reddit textpost on r/seduction. His ideas were either an repackaging of other philosophers with nonsensical Words and Metaphors He Capitalised (with the glorification of Nietzsche and Kant) or reckless assertions. I'm not opposed to this style in and of itself (Wait but Why is fantastic, and I like Manson's blog well enough), but in book form it becomes tedious very fast. True, there were some interesting points, but its a bad sign when you skip to the bibliography and get excited because you find out there are 70 pages less pages to read.
I did like the bizarre 'robot overlords' twist at the end though, which was so left field I had to laugh.
1.5*
Manson's writing starts off charmingly conversational but eventually starts to grate on you, like a cross between some teen WIDPSC competitor's persuasive speech and a long winded Reddit textpost on r/seduction. His ideas were either an repackaging of other philosophers with nonsensical Words and Metaphors He Capitalised (with the glorification of Nietzsche and Kant) or reckless assertions. I'm not opposed to this style in and of itself (Wait but Why is fantastic, and I like Manson's blog well enough), but in book form it becomes tedious very fast. True, there were some interesting points, but its a bad sign when you skip to the bibliography and get excited because you find out there are 70 pages less pages to read.
I did like the bizarre 'robot overlords' twist at the end though, which was so left field I had to laugh.
1.5*