Matt Haig

[openbook1]

What absolute shite. Sad that people make money off writing this.

 

[bubbletea123]

Becoming a big account on Twitter seems to have that affect on a lot of the British left writer / journalist gang. Very smug and preachy and braggy in a way I cannot stomach. I don't begrudge people success but I also don't want to read those kind of posts.

I have had to unfollow a load of British writers / journalists recently as they've become a pain in the ass.

 

[Flivver]

I noticed that he’d surfaced with a ‘poor me’ post.

Has he got a book due out soon?

 

[Jelly Bean]

this tweet won't last long

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He really really needs to get over himself.
He is leaving himself open to ridicule as he is being a massive twat - and he is far too thinskinned to handle it.

 

[Jelly Bean]

film trailer's here, along with the predictable "what, little old me?" tweet as if he didn't have the contacts and didn't deliberately write a book with the full intention of a xmas film

looks crap anyway

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Oh dear that film looks utter manipulative pish. Even with the lovely Toby Jones. Really substandard Neil Gaiman.

 

[WillowMulberry]

I think he started out good, with "reasons to stay alive" but he's quite condescending even to his own fans. I remember he called someone a psycho, to which other people pointed out that he can't possibly stand up for people with mental health whilst calling people negative words associated with mental health. It's like calling someone "mental" as a mental health advocate. Psycho is no better.

He did but has changed for the worst as we all know. I think he let the success of Reasons To Stay Alive and Notes On A Nervous Planet get to his head.

Like I said in an earlier comment, I’ll always be thankful to Reasons because it gave me hope during an extremely dark period of my life where I was barely hanging on. It remains one of my favourite books to this day, as much as I think he should’ve gone further in depth.

Given his line of work and being in the public eye, he needs to take criticism better as it’s not one of his strong suits at all. Even constructive criticism put kindly will have him be horrible to you. He acts like he’s been poked with a fire hot stick.

 

[bubbletea123]

I don’t know who this guy is but he is always being retweeted into my timeline. I absolutely hate the shit he tweets. I’m at the lowest point in my life and honestly the crap he tweets makes me feel worse.
Maybe it helps some people but I find his tweets insufferable. It doesn’t even come across as sincere just as though he wants retweets.

He is a smug prat. It is funny that he goes on about mental health...as I feel he takes advantage of those with mental health issues/milks it for his content. His book Notes on a Nervous Planet is awful. He goes on about how the news is created to make you worry (which to some extent I agree with) but that book made me feel the same way.

 

[Jelly Bean]

I’m not one of those sour faced people who think you can’t celebrate birthdays over the age of 10 or anything but jeez I’ve never seen a grown up go on about there birthday as much and wanting so much attention for it.

I know. I'm embarrassed for him.
It is beyond tragic.

 

[smirkingrevenge]

I was thinking he could check/remember what he had said to who. But great if it’s gaining traction already.

Apparently he was doing the rounds and DMing people he DMed before… way to make yourself look guilty.

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

If he’s potentially referring to the writer that previously posted about him on Instagram, then he’s chosen an opportune moment, as I believe she’s Ukrainian and focused heavily on volunteering for the war effort rather than him.

That is exactly what I thought. She has far bigger things on her mind than him at the moment.

Cynical me would say this is exactly why he has come out and said it now.

 

[Pixieboots]

Insufferable.

 

[kachoochoo]

omg, this did not need to be printed. he is ridiculous

 

[Jelly Bean]

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What the hell is he on about?
He really is a tedious self involved boring prat.

I thought he was going off SM again for his MH?

 

[Vanelope]

I feel a little hypocritical as some of you will have seen the pictures of one of my birthday presents but just look at him! bet he's just gonna wheel it around like phoebe buffay!

and do we think that's a #gifted cake?

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Yes definitely. So not disclosed properly.

 

[kachoochoo]

"corny like a hallmark movie and probably the least subtle book I've ever read"

Hi all! I don't really frequent this thread but thought you'd like to know a fairly popular book YouTuber reviewed his latest work and...was not a fan. I only knew his name off of mentions of him in other threads on Tattle but wow he sounds annoying.

Review starts at 7 minutes 52 seconds, fair warning if it will upset anyone: there are mentions of suicide, joking about suicide & she uses the word "bitches" a lot.

thank you so much for sharing this! I can relate to every word she says and every facial expression she makes!

(well, except that she was actually brave enough read the damn book)

 

[JellyWobbles]

His on the telly now. Urgh I can’t stand him.

 

[judsmum]

Matt Haigs children’s books are fantastic. The best me and my son have ever read together. They are dark and unfriendly in places but are magic and exciting however he should stick to that because whilst mental health advocates is what we need a privileged oracle becoming more and more unrelatable by the day is what we do not need.

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

Imagine being on a nice holiday and seeing the King of Shite Takes getting his picture taken so he can slap a deep quote over it for his bloody Instagram stories

If I saw him on holiday (which I wouldn’t because, well I don’t go to southern pebbly beaches or to Beefa) then I would wave “stay” in his face and ask him his thoughts on plagiarism.

And tell him he knows f all about mental health.

 

[FrannyGallops]

Me-rail but relevant: I knew someone, a bit like Jack Monroe in many ways, who was constantly looking for medical attention/new diagnoses. When I began having doubts I felt like a terrible, judgmental person. I kept thinking I was being unfair - 'I don't know what they're going through' - that sort of thing. But something just didn't feel right. I was so convinced this person wasn't autistic, but they went to a psychiatrist, she asked some questions and they got the diagnosis

I’ll probably get flamed for this, but I have a good friend who is convinced she has bipolar, fibromyalgia and a whole host of other stuff and I think the drs have agreed with her to get her off their backs. What I think is she’s been through a few years of severe trauma and needs intense specialised therapy and counselling but it’s easier and cheaper to put her on a fuck ton of medication and give her a label. This isn’t a criticism of my friend either because she was desperate for help, but the systems in place just aren’t the help she really needs or are otherwise shit. It also means that *some* people, like the Monroes and Haigs of the world, can play that to their advantage.

 

[Vanelope]

Wait til #ownvoices Twitter gets hold of him.
FWIW I think the point of fiction is to write imaginatively, especially fantasy so I don’t buy into all the only lives experience being written stuff. However, too many straight white men authors so can cut those down.