"Fuck You" (Hatsukoi-Yokochou manga)
(September 25) This is the fastest I’ve read a book in a long time, not because it was hard to put down or anything, just because it’s very short, and chattily written, blog style, so not that great a reading challenge. ::shrug::
I anticipated hating this guy because all the hype about the book emphasizes the “refreshing slap in the face” style self-help -- so I was dubious -- thought it would be just pointless and negatively oriented, probably sensationalistic… but by p. 4 he says trying to act positive just focuses on the lack of positivity, which is reassuringly Abraham-Hicks. His main topic is not trying, like Edward Slingerland’s Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity, only now the point of view is that of a young male blogger who uses a lot of foul language rather than that of an erudite scholar.
Manson is pretty young to be making a lot of the pronouncements he makes about human behaviour and he has the classic arrogance of the inexperienced -- ‟if it happens like this for me it must be the same for all,” and ‟if it never happens that way for me it’s not true.” He’s also very fond of a broad generalization.
In a lot of ways, though, his advice for living supports Abe-Hicks.... it’s just the teen-diary version.
Manson is pretty young to be making a lot of the pronouncements he makes about human behaviour and he has the classic arrogance of the inexperienced -- ‟if it happens like this for me it must be the same for all,” and ‟if it never happens that way for me it’s not true.” He’s also very fond of a broad generalization.
In a lot of ways, though, his advice for living supports Abe-Hicks.... it’s just the teen-diary version.
