Everything Is F#cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson

Everything Is F#cked: A Book About Hope is the third book by blogger and author Mark Manson

Book review

Genre Non fiction supposedly self help!

Spoilers- Nothing left to spoil! Everything is f#cked remember!?😀

Rating- 5/5 for the title, 4/5 for the starting and 2/5 for the rest of the book!

So Mark Manson wrote a blog literally saying F#ck you and it became a hit! Then he followed it up with a stretched out version of the same blog and lo! It also became a hit!

So now he has a big hit on his hands and he does not know what to do next!

So he does the next best thing which anyone will do! Read another actual blockbuster book with actual material and effort and make a synopsis of how you understood the book!
So the book he read among many others was Thinking, fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and the way Daniel did extensive experiments to come to a realisation that we have two systems; Mark went one step further and told there are two brain! The thinking brain and the emotional brain and most of the book is an expansion of his interpretation of this theory!

Taking from one source is plagiarism while taking from many is research! Mark has done lots of research and how! Then just like the book How to win friends and influence people which is my current read, Mark gives accounts of successful people or famous people and tries to give his remix!

So Newtons life story becomes the start of his third chapter! This is after he tells the reader the uncomfortable truth that its difficult to just say F#ck all over and continue and then he adds that self control is an illusion which are his first two chapters! Then again you can feel this is what’s actually happening to him!

So he does not spare Newton and make up his laws of Emotions! (Clever remix I must say but then just because the lead in a movie is good does not mean the whole movie will be a hit!)

So in the next chapter he tells how to make dreams come true and in the very next one he says hope is F#cked!

Now some pages are left and he has to fill them up with things better than just F#ck which he did in the last novel so he takes on the Godmen and constructs a scheme on how to create a religion! Even Mark knows that religion is the only thing which can touch any nerve and he gives a step by step plan on how to go about it!

In between the thinking and feeling brain analogy comes and goes like a F@cked up cameo similar to a big star given guest appearance in a movie which has only one way to go: down!

Of course this counter intuitive look at life and giving no hoot is not new and this will be tried over and over again in the future but these like remixes cannot last for long!

Now I am not a big fan of non fiction book but I have made it a point to read some of them so that some reality kicks in! Only then I could get and discover gems like Homo Sapiens by Yuval Noah or Thinking by Daniel Kahneman and once in a while you do get Mark! Don’t get me wrong, the book is enjoyable and fast and does not stress you with too much philosophy (that will come in the next book I am sure!), but after a while you just want the book to end!

The best thing about the novel is still the fact that you feel good about reading Thinking, Slow and Fast by Daniel Kahneman!



This is frankly only my opinion and I am a minority because this is a very famous book and I am sure the next one will be out soon! And my guess is that that book will be named I am F#cked and so are you!

Luckily I got the audible version without paying a dime or else even I would have said everything is …!!


Have fun but don’t get carried away!