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[–] 141 points 8 months ago (26 children)

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck pisses me off every fucking time I see it. If you didn't give a fuck, you would spell out fuck like an adult.

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  • [–] 85 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe they did spell it out, the publisher changed it, and the author didn’t give a fuck?

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    A former boss bought me a copy of that book as a Christmas gift (instead of giving out bonuses). It took everything I had to not say "Wow, you really don't know me at all."

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I started it, and it's bad. I must've read 25 pages.

    It's very poorly written, it reads like it was written by someone who only speaks English as a second language, or a teenager. With an added layer of trying to sound deep and wise.

    Whatever substance there might be in there was destroyed by who terrible it was to read.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't it some blog post that was edited into a book?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    I have, and it was basically a curse-word ridden version of another book that was published around the same time. The "unfucked" version was better IMO, but I don't remember what it was called. I guess gimmicks really do help a book succeed.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe you're thinking of "Let Them" by Mel Robbins? It's newer but a more positive way to say the same thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I don't think so. There was a book where the author looked at basically the same groups of people (stoics, buddhists, etc.) but it didn't have the same buzzy title. I think I loaded both onto my Kindle from pdf so now I can't find a reference to either. Oh well.

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