Book Review: The Rudest Book Ever Book by Shwetabh Gangwar

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Introduction

Author: Shwetabh Gangwar

Language: English

Genre: self-help

About the Author

Shwetabh Gangwar is an author and he has written two books. His first book was 'A Thousand Love Letters' and his second book is 'The Rudest Book Ever' which became the number one bestseller. Shwetabh Gangwar signing his book 'The Rudest Book Ever' during its launch. 

He is an Indian YouTuber, a motivational speaker, an author, and a singer. Shwetabh started his journey in 2015 with his YouTube channel 'Mensutra. ' The content of his videos was mostly related to how people can concentrate when they study, how they can move on from a bad phase, etc.

Review

This is a book trying to shift our focus on life from becoming an ideal person to a practical person. The author is mentioning different methods on how to deal with rejections, failures and social media effectively. It is esoteric why some authors think that the best way to make a reader think and understand life is by using a "charged language" and harsh approach to the reader. 

We will feel that the author is trying to emulate Mark Manson in some parts of this book. It was an admirable attempt, but it is challenging to do what Mark Manson did with his book. The author is discussing an important concept of parenting here. He tells us the importance of parents in a children's life. 

It is bad parenting that is destroying the future of many children, The book covers have the right characteristics and help you choose Satisfaction over happiness. As the spirituality suggests one should not live a life of duality instead drop attachment. The author similarly says, screw happiness as you cannot always be happy, instead choose satisfaction.

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Another interesting chapter, “Screw your heros”. People find their role-models based on popularity and have a bias, if his hero is popular and has abundant followers then feel like whatever the hero does is morally accepted and justified. In reality, our heros are mere humans and they too make mistakes, hence, maintain your individuality, always admire your hero’s acts but don’t blindly follow.

This book ends with learning how to think and the importance of developing philosophical thinking. This book is directed towards teens and young adults, and the book could surely render useful to them as it is packed with some good advice. It's not a particularly intelligent or thought-provoking book but understandably that is to pander to a larger audience. 

My only recommendation to young folks is to take Shwetabh's advice with a grain of salt. He is his own person and most likely wouldn't want people to treat his book like the gospel truth either [refer to his notes of hero-worshipping]. It's nice that the book is a compact light read but there is nothing new under the sun here. 

The book is written in a way that sounds more like internal monologuing. It would work better as an audiobook. It's difficult to speed read because it's written in a spoken format, akin to a tweet rather than regular basic grammatical literature that we have been accustomed to consume. 

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Random words being bolded for no particular reason, not even contextual emphasis, is super distracting and even after perusing the book, none of the content really sticks with you or makes any sort of impact. It could have been written in a much better format to reach a vast audience in a more effective way but the gimmick of being called the rudest book ever might just give you the misconception that it is going to awaken you from your comfort zone in a rude tough love sort of way. 

Rather is just the incessant use of then work fuck as an adverb, adjective, and other pos tags that make you inadvertently filter it in your mind as inconsequential drivel and distracts you from some decent points. It did the exact opposite of an impact or create a lasting impression for the author's words to stay with you.


Why should you buy this book?

The Rudest Book Ever by Shwetabh Gangwar is a self-help book that helps us realize the ignorance that we pose towards our own selves. It teaches us to know ourselves better by freeing our minds from all the bullshit we come across in our day-to-day life. 

This book is a must-read for those who are yet to understand what went wrong? And how did it go wrong? It helps us realize the mistakes that we made or still make. If you are a person who cares about other’s opinions or who wants to be recognized as special by someone, stuck in a toxic relationship, are tired of being rejected, is a blind follower of an idea or a person then, this is a must-read for you.


Rating for this book - 4.6/5

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Written By - Govinda Kumar

Edited By - Anamika Malik