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Is it any good?

>> No.19794781

>>19794730
If you're functionally socially retarded, then yes.

>> No.19794840

>>19794730
Why don't you read it and find out

>> No.19795747

>>19794730
>FUCK! LOL Just don't FUCKING care! Why didn't you FUCKING think of that you FUCKING FUCKER! lol FUCK FUCK FUCK

Redditors love it. You will too

>> No.19795762

>>19795747
poetry

>> No.19795782

>>19794730
Based on the title and cover alone I can tell you it’s trash

>> No.19795790

It's dumb. Funny how both 4chan and Leddit hates this book.

>> No.19795791

>>19794730
Yes. Self serious /lit/ virgins would do well to read it

>> No.19795799

How can you write an entire book about being a smarmy shithead who doesn't take anything seriously?

>> No.19795804

>>19794730
Just read the title and apply it to your life man.

>> No.19795808

watered down stoicism

>> No.19795940

>>19795808
which is fine for its purpose. the target audience is normalfags and there aren't many books aimed at that public with the moral that life is basically "learn how to suffer".

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19795959

>>19794730
The cover gives me the same kind of energy as pic related

>> No.19796036

>>19794730
>imagine needing a book to tell you how to not give a fuck
...

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>>19794730
Why do women love this book?

>> No.19796404

It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay worse than Peterson at his very worst
I try to be diplomatic here but.........

>> No.19796469

>>19796404
Post quotes for comparisons.

>> No.19796519

>art of not giving a fuck
>couldn't even write fuck on the cover

>> No.19796610

>>19794730
I've been very depressed recently and my dad keeps urging me to read this book because he thinks it will help. He has very little experience with both reading and mental health. Should I take his advice?

>> No.19796706

>>19794730
I read it few years ago
Just some random pseudo-intellectual bullshit
Roasties and limpwristed faggots think its godsent tho
>btw a roastie gifted me this

>> No.19796723

>>19796610
My mom keeps trying to get me to read it. It's probably just her nice way of saying I'm a loser and need to do something about it

>> No.19797313

>>19795808
I hate those types of books with a passion. Look at The Daily Stoic - a book that takes a quote from someone like Seneca, adds some gay description on what it means and puffs it up with some modern-CEO-wakeupat5am-tranny's story. All the while the works of stoics are readily available and easy to understand.

Does seeing Seneca - On The Shortness of Life scare the public so much? The translations are modern, it's not hard to understand the meaning, the prose is beautifully concise and accurate. Why do people insist on reading (and posting on social media) that watered-down plagiaristic garbage?

>> No.19797346

>>19796610
Couldn’t hurt. You don’t know me but I read a lot and was healed of depression. My advice is read the New Testament like a self help book and childishly obey everything it says. Worked for me, I became saved and slowly overtime my mental health as improved dramatically without medicine. I used to have so much anxiety I would stay up for days because I was scared I was going to die in my sleep, I would have three intense panic attacks a day, I abused opiates to deal with it all. Now I’m sober, haven’t had a panic attack in two years, I sleep like a dead man, and I am generally at peace because of Gods work in me. So yeah you probabaly know the Bible and Jesus and the gospel but I just popped in to say that little bit

>> No.19797365

>>19797313
I've been trying to get into stoicism but I'm not reading some old philosopher nerd's book from a different time period.

I'm sure Seneca's works were relevant to his contemporaries, but I live almost 2000 years later and it's a "historic" text. I don't want a historic text--I want a manual for stoicism.

>> No.19797512

>>19794730
I thought It was alright. I read it during a time where my state of mind was the kind that the book targeted. I thought the ideas and their reasoning made sense, mainly because they're based on stoicism, which, if you really wanted to benefit from that philosophy, would be far more beneficial just to read classical works that stoicism is based on, like Seneca or Marcus Aurelius to name a couple. It's obviously a meme at this point, but I think you could extract value some despite it's meme status. But it'd be far more rewarded just to read the classical works instead

>> No.19797543

>>19794730
>f*uck
The author refutes himself just from the title alone.

>> No.19797704

>>19797365
You haven't read Seneca then. I was honestly confused as to how old the writings were; if Seneca didn't mention toga's and gladiators once in a while, I'd pass it as almost contemporary (18-20th century) work.

>> No.19798531

>>19795747
lmao

inherently dishonest group of people those guys are

>> No.19798548

>>19797365
I bet there are people that unironically think this way

>> No.19798835

>>19798548
Honestly I do, but >>19797704 has changed my mind a bit and I might order the books.

It's a similar issue I have with Victorian literature: at what point do you 'update' it? People reading it at the time weren't reading 'old-fashioned' language, and my brain has smoothened in adulthood.

Can probably stomach the occasional toga reference, thanks anon.