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"Book by writer that's currently popular among women (sally rooney, otessa moshfegh, A Little Life, etc.) ✅"
"also i read a little life and am almost finished breaking bad, and these two tie into my point. a little life was kinda shitty story-wise but i appreciated how it was like a grand, almost sweeping story involving like, normal brooklyn trust fund hipsters. i felt like i had met each character."
"The author Hanya Yanagihara wrote a god-awful book called A Little Life. It was critically praised upon initial release partly because the author has power in the publishing industry. This has been on my mind since 2015, when A Little Life was published."
"I'm interested to read it but have got a lot of the main spoilers spoiled for me. I don't care about spoilers but I have a hunch the book doesn't have a lot going for it besides the voyeurism."
"after putting "a little life" by yanagihara on hold at the library and finally receiving it after 3 months i'm…… really surprised that this book is held in such high regard???? i've only read the first few pages but i honestly can't imagine it getting any better because the style and content is so o"
"I'm interested to read it but have got a lot of the main spoilers spoiled for me. I don't care about spoilers but I have a hunch the book doesn't have a lot going for it besides the voyeurism."
"It's everywhere and I'm interested because it's supposed to be miserable. but it's also like 800 pages"
"Absurd torture porn that seems to have taken the premise of *Martyrs* seriously and hopes to bestow upon the audience a greater appreciation of life by making them sit and watch as the soft-hearted, waifish gay male protagonist is exposed to a gauntlet of increasingly bleak horrors."