Everything Is F*cked

A Book About Hope

Paperback, 288 pages

Published May 14, 2019 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-288846-4
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OCLC Number:
1096313067

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5 stars (1 review)

We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education and communication our ancestors couldn’t even dream of, so many of us come back to an overriding feeling of hopelessness.

What’s going on? If anyone can put a name to our current malaise and help fix it, it’s Mark Manson. In 2016, Manson published The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, a book that brilliantly gave shape to the ever-present, low-level hum of anxiety that permeates modern living. He showed us that technology had made it too easy to care about the wrong things, that our …

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The title is a good indicator of the writing style

5 stars

It's relaxed and humorous and peppered with enough street language to make reading it seem like talking with a friend who makes you laugh. There is a point to the book beyond the reading experience, which is the author's view on hope. I don't know how well I agree with it, but it's extremely thought provoking. I gave it five stars but it's not perfect. There are long-winded sections that don't seem to advance the story, but four stars wasn't good enough