Did he ever take an exam and make a B? Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Read 30,020 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. by Doubleday So much pain, but also so much love.

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. January is proving to be a very bleak month.So why has it struck such a chord? It may be dark and traumatic, but Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel offers a refreshingly modern take on friendship in the age of anxietyEver since Christmas – when the novel’s prevalence on year-end lists guaranteed its spot among my friends as a gloomy, dauntingly large stocking filler – the messages have been rolling in.My friend Tom texted, “Horrendous but there are 150+ pages of bad stuff,” and then, a week later, “I am still thinking about the book.” On Facebook, one friend told me, “IT IS SLAYING ME,” and another suggested a support group.Set in the present, A Little Life is about four young men – friends from the same college – who move to New York to chase big careers. 0385539258 An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. His happiness, told but not shown, at the bitter end doesn’t mean anything more than that. There are places that are overwrought and overwritten but this is an amazing, engrossing novel. “You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. The writing, the time landscape, the exploration, the devastation — all of it is expertly done in my opinion. In the new godless world, there are no fixed external points or a commonly held set of beliefs; all that was solid has long ago melted into air. You urge your book club to read it (or you form a book club to that end); you post status updates, you tweet; you give it to other people to read, burdening them so that you’re not left alone with this i will genuinely never recover from reading a little lifeSnape died, Bowie died, my boiler broke and I'm in the final chapters of A Little Life. A creative queen and a violent, probably psychopathic, sadist. Welcome back. Heed my warning: do not pick this book up if you're having a bad day! This novel is about Jude’s life, his depression, his experiences, his feelings of pain and insurmountable shame. Despite there being a large, diverse, well-fleshed out cast of characters- make no mistake: this novel is about Jude. This is that place that this book took me. Sometimes you just know.It may sound presumptuous to say in January that I've read the best book I've read all year, but reading is a lot like love. He started off being just as interesting a character as the others, questioning his future and his sexuality, feeling inferior to his sister and entitled while simultaneously, perhaps, feeling a bit embarrassed by his upbringing and entitlement.

Published With this massive word count, there was certainly ample opportunity to do so. Brace yourself for the most melodramatic, pretentious, dull, dumb, overwritten, repetitive, laughable, cringe-inducing, self-indulgent, unbelievable, stereotypical, voyeuristic, contrived piece of fiction. March 10th 2015

Did anyone ever just meet this guy and think, "meh, what a sad sack"? On the other hand, if you're in a good space and fancy something challenging and absorbing that might take over your life for a while (it's over 700 pages long) - this is the one. I don’t say this ironically — I truly don’t understand why this reading experience is sensationalized.a little (ha) at odds with how to feel. All the other “possibilities” are pedophiles (categorically not gay—that’s a sickness, an evil, that has nothing to do with being gay) or so hopelessly confused (and impotent) that you can’t know what they are (JB and Willem). I can't, with a clear conscience, give this book anything less than 5 stars.

This is suffering that I can only imagine and I am amazed how the author conveyed this suffering and made me feel some of this by suffering along with Jude . “Young people are increasingly encouraged to see themselves not as agents in life but as potential victims: of their dates, their roommates, their professors, of institutions and history in general,” Mendelsohn wrote.In this culture, he said, the victim has the status: “To such readers [of A Little Life], the ugliness of this author’s subject must bring a kind of pleasure, confirming their pre-existing view of the world as a site of victimisation and little else.”Generalised anxiety and dread is in the atmosphere, after all. There's just so much about this book I didn't like, and very little I did like, that I don't really want to talk about it very much. i have died a hundred deaths and shed a thousand tears whilst reading this book.

Keeping up with the comments is practically a part-time job. I finished A Little Life and I feel like I just climbed out of a well and my fingernails are torn upReading, of course, is a solo activity. Not that it mirrors my life, but that it's the literary love of my life. Written so tenderly, poignantly and with raw honesty. A Little Life book. Why is the sexual relationship always at the centre? Generation Y, Our daily social interactions have blown out from a few dozen to potential thousands, which we carry around with us every moment on our smartphones. Having said that, I don't think the book would have been nearly as touching, nor would I have cared so deeply about the characters, without every detail.Julie: Thank you so much for replying here and before about the so-called spoilers. There are only two recognizable gay men in this work, JB and Caleb. Keeping up with the comments is practically a part-time job. I’ve just wasted hours of my life waiting for Jude’s suicide. Hope you’re well, my friend.


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