The subtle art of not giving a fuck… but still feeling you have to censor yourself
I feel like 90% of any bookstore I’ve been to has been self help (and/or loony new age stuff), biographies of / stuff written by politicians, and military “history” books.
Most of the rest are young adult novels and smut with some guy’s chest on the cover.
They stock what sells. It says more about the general population than it does about a bookstore trying to make rent
It’s because p much noone reads books just for the joy of it anymore. I don’t either, and i actually love reading, one of my biggest interests growing up, classic ‘binge about 500 pages in a week’ kid. It’s taken me 3 months to reread the first LOTR book, took me 3 weeks as a teen.
Brain broke, what do 🤷
The word has been around for six centuries or so, the obsession with censoring it is absurd.
Interesting the choice of some publishers to censor the U and others the C.
Clearly they do give a *uck
Mutha uckas messing with my shiii…
Isnt it uckin with?
Duck
“Zero fuck* given” would be my title.
We’re so edgy, we put a curse word on the cover! How do you like that?!
Well, of course we had to be cheeky about it and censor it a bit so we can earn the maximum amount possible by cashing in on our edginess and not offending the advertisers too much!Advertisers are stupid, apparently, and would never know what letter the * in f*ck stands for.
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.
Maybe they did spell it out, the publisher changed it, and the author didn’t give a fuck?
Nah, aliens.
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.”
Use a sharpie to change the title to “the subtle art of not giving a fuck at work” and keep it on your desk
Nah, I asked for a reasonable salary increase and quit when it was denied.
like an adult
And not like those fucking teenagers who are notorious for self-censorship 😆
Oh no the fuck word
Have you even read it?
I haven’t because I don’t give a fuck about it
Oh honey, your ignorance is showing. Don’t comment on books you haven’t read.
Did ye miss the joke?
Ha! I did, my apologies.
no but the cover is all I need to judge it
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.
Isn’t it some blog post that was edited into a book?
Could be. It’s just bad to read in any case.
something something a book by its cover.
Glad to see ignorance is alive and well
It is indeed.
No. Why would I give a fuck about a book that proves with its title that it doesn’t know shit about the subject of the book? That’d be like buying “every way to cook a steak: 500 recipes for microwaving filet mignon”
So you just like being ignorant then.
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.
I have as well, and Mark Manson is a really intelligent writer. That book is still on the shelves for a reason.
Everyone uses gimmicks.
Eh not everyone uses gimmicks.
Maybe you’re thinking of “Let Them” by Mel Robbins? It’s newer but a more positive way to say the same thing.
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.
The fascist with a blue check mark on shitter is going to judge books by their cover! What fun. Let’s all subscribe to his podcast now.
This reminds me of the movie American Fiction
Before reading the orange one, which is the first of the three, I really didn’t think I could ever like it, purely based off the title. I’m also really not a self-help book type of person. I also don’t know necessarily that I got much actual “help” from the book, I also wasn’t really looking for any, I just read it because it was recommended to me from a good friend. My final caveat to the following opinion of that book is that I haven’t read the other two.
All that being said, the subtle art of not giving a fuck introduced me to some ideas, conceptually, about humankind and our nature and the way we behave in our lives that blew my mind and changed the way I thought of the world and the behaviors of people around me. Very keen observations and assertions in there that had never really occurred to me, functionally. Maybe, it came to me at a time when I really needed to hear something from it? Regardless, it does hold a unique place for me in my mind, and affects my ideas about being a human being and I very much value that growth. Can’t necessarily speak to the prose positively or negatively, but I’m thinking generally self-help books aren’t necessarily masterworks of literature.
I have similar experiences with the book after being recommended it by an older cousin that found it beneficial to getting outside their bubble. It’s nothing earth shattering, but the book does a great job of getting you to look at things from different perspectives.
Tell me its Barnes and Noble without telling me.
Maybe it’s not. However every time I go in there I see the most trash low quality books. Not to mentioned you get the vibe that every one was approved by a lawyer for being “safe”. I will browse when I end up in one, but I never buy.
Oohh, expurgation, edgy.
Thank you for the new word.
It’s called a series, and they aren’t that bad. I’ve only dabbled with one of them and can’t remember which one it was (we have a free library at work). If you aren’t aware, print media isn’t exactly a hot commodity these days, so being eye catching or “sassy” helps get traction. Funny story though, you aren’t supposed to judge a book by it’s cover, but by the contents inside.
It’s complete trash. I was gifted one of them and it was one of the worst books I’ve ever tried to read, just painfully bad writing by someone with very little life experience.
What’s weird is that I work at a used book store and we are busier than we’ve ever been in our fifty years of operation. From my perspective, print media is a very hot commodity… so long as the selection is carefully curated and the prices are carefully tuned to respond to the market on a day-to-day basis. If retail sellers can’t manage that, maybe they need to look at their own business practices and figure out what they’re doing wrong.
Glad to hear that. Folks are realizing you can’t trust the internet these days I’d guess? Also, nothing beats a good book!
Looks like a bookstore from Idiocracy
The If Books Could Kill podcast did an episode on The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck and were unimpressed. IIRC they at least thought it was just kind of shitty rather than actively promoting bad ideas.
YouTube link (sorry): https://youtu.be/Ms6-H9LiWdA
I read it and found it rather revealing. Some of the ideas sound obvious in retrospect, but hearing them laid out like that helps. It was quite funny too.
