Anonymous
6/21/2025, 4:23:24 PM No.24484897
is this book any good or is it one of those meme books written by women for women? a female friend recommended it to me.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 4:25:17 PM No.24484905
>>24484897 (OP)
Read it and talk about it with her retard she's trying to give you a shared interest
Read it and talk about it with her retard she's trying to give you a shared interest
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6/21/2025, 4:45:01 PM No.24484956
>>24484905
If a chick told me to read A Little Life nevermind if she was interested in me, I'd be running the other way tb h.
If a chick told me to read A Little Life nevermind if she was interested in me, I'd be running the other way tb h.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 6:25:39 PM No.24485197
>>24484897 (OP)
Never read the book, but the guy on the cover is bussin good
Never read the book, but the guy on the cover is bussin good
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 6:41:02 PM No.24485225
>>24484897 (OP)
It’s ass and retarded but not just because it’s about sad gay man who gets molested. For the first 100 pages the book constructs a quartet of somewhat annoying but at least vividly described NYC types. The perspective bounces between them and we get at least a mediocre back and forth world-building for a while, until suddenly the book dives deep into one characters impossibly traumatic upbringing. The characterization of both his childhood and present life is so wildly exaggerated in every respect that it loses all force after a few hundred pages of emotional manipulation. Jude, the protagonist, is sequentially molested, in a bizarrely socially un-investigated way by the clergy, orphanage peers, somehow every truck driver across the continental US, and last but not least an actually supervillainous evil doctor. Yet, AT THE SAME TIME, he is somehow a genius lawyer, beloved by everyone, a savant pianist, double majored in pure math and is an advanced logician, basically unaffected by his traumas except for his highly repetitive self-harm and inability to confide his past with others. This device is used so monotonously that 2/3rds of the way through the book, it feels natural as a reader to literally feel like he should just kill himself to end this boredom. And while all of this is happening, all of the potentially interesting members of the original quartet fade almost entirely out of relevance, and not in an artistically interesting way that connotes absence, but rather feeling like Yanigahara had an one idea and then pivoted to another 100 pages in. Fuck this book. All its mystery and intrigue is simply contingent on hinting at scenes of impossible grotesque abuse and then falling completely flat once they are described (and not even taken to the truly absurd proportions they could be). How is it that Tropic of Cancer manages to feel more transgressive than a book with child sex slavery?
It’s ass and retarded but not just because it’s about sad gay man who gets molested. For the first 100 pages the book constructs a quartet of somewhat annoying but at least vividly described NYC types. The perspective bounces between them and we get at least a mediocre back and forth world-building for a while, until suddenly the book dives deep into one characters impossibly traumatic upbringing. The characterization of both his childhood and present life is so wildly exaggerated in every respect that it loses all force after a few hundred pages of emotional manipulation. Jude, the protagonist, is sequentially molested, in a bizarrely socially un-investigated way by the clergy, orphanage peers, somehow every truck driver across the continental US, and last but not least an actually supervillainous evil doctor. Yet, AT THE SAME TIME, he is somehow a genius lawyer, beloved by everyone, a savant pianist, double majored in pure math and is an advanced logician, basically unaffected by his traumas except for his highly repetitive self-harm and inability to confide his past with others. This device is used so monotonously that 2/3rds of the way through the book, it feels natural as a reader to literally feel like he should just kill himself to end this boredom. And while all of this is happening, all of the potentially interesting members of the original quartet fade almost entirely out of relevance, and not in an artistically interesting way that connotes absence, but rather feeling like Yanigahara had an one idea and then pivoted to another 100 pages in. Fuck this book. All its mystery and intrigue is simply contingent on hinting at scenes of impossible grotesque abuse and then falling completely flat once they are described (and not even taken to the truly absurd proportions they could be). How is it that Tropic of Cancer manages to feel more transgressive than a book with child sex slavery?
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 6:50:52 PM No.24485247
>>24484897 (OP)
Everyone in it is somehow the best at everything they do while they all get debilitating illnesses or get molested by every man who is in the story. There’s one particular part at the beginning where they talk about being poor and intentionally eating at a restaurant that gives them food poisoning every time they go and it’s written as a “wow look we’re so poor” type of action and it feels as if the author is just writing misery porn for the sake of it because none of the actions done by the characters feel like real people, much less people who have been traumatized. It’s pretty fucking gay
>>24485225
This anon explains it better than me
Everyone in it is somehow the best at everything they do while they all get debilitating illnesses or get molested by every man who is in the story. There’s one particular part at the beginning where they talk about being poor and intentionally eating at a restaurant that gives them food poisoning every time they go and it’s written as a “wow look we’re so poor” type of action and it feels as if the author is just writing misery porn for the sake of it because none of the actions done by the characters feel like real people, much less people who have been traumatized. It’s pretty fucking gay
>>24485225
This anon explains it better than me
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 7:07:21 PM No.24485283
>>24484897 (OP)
it's peak fujoshit written by and for fat femcels
it's peak fujoshit written by and for fat femcels
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 7:10:32 PM No.24485298
>>24484962
it's about a toxic relationship, abuse and co-dependence
I think that anon is implying she wants to do that to you
it's about a toxic relationship, abuse and co-dependence
I think that anon is implying she wants to do that to you
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 8:25:24 PM No.24485491
>Read it in an attempt to get into Arthoe friends pants
>Become enthralled with just how many way gay black rape and abuse can be depicted over 800 pages
>Realise that she and thousands of others actually read this and thought it was touching.
It's a book for psychopaths, trauma porn nonsense.
>Become enthralled with just how many way gay black rape and abuse can be depicted over 800 pages
>Realise that she and thousands of others actually read this and thought it was touching.
It's a book for psychopaths, trauma porn nonsense.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 12:40:09 AM No.24486056
>>24484956
The book is good, though.
The book is good, though.
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 12:44:13 AM No.24486065
>>24486025
How do you read a book and shlick at the same time
How do you read a book and shlick at the same time
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 3:42:47 AM No.24486438
>>24484897 (OP)
This cover art is gay.
This cover art is gay.
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 4:44:29 AM No.24486520
>>24484897 (OP)
I saw a copy of that book for 1.99 today and didn't bother.
I saw a copy of that book for 1.99 today and didn't bother.
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!ew4B6gxEuk
6/22/2025, 1:50:29 PM No.24487101
It's just a particularly eminent example of the "female Asian diaspora" phenomenon.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 3:44:42 PM No.24487295
Most absurd book I have read, maybe ever.
Like other anons mention, it is so ridiculously improbable that the protagonist is as successful as he is, considering the absurd amounts of trauma he has been through. And because Yanagihara doesn't know how to write actually emotionally impactful stories, she just throws extreme trauma upon extreme trauma, and then we are supposed to care. Somehow this apparently works on some (primarily women).
I ended up reading it because I have some female friends that recommended it, and now I am afraid that they might actually be retarded.
Like other anons mention, it is so ridiculously improbable that the protagonist is as successful as he is, considering the absurd amounts of trauma he has been through. And because Yanagihara doesn't know how to write actually emotionally impactful stories, she just throws extreme trauma upon extreme trauma, and then we are supposed to care. Somehow this apparently works on some (primarily women).
I ended up reading it because I have some female friends that recommended it, and now I am afraid that they might actually be retarded.
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 7:42:58 PM No.24487818
>>24487101
Lol, love that meme.
Lol, love that meme.
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 7:43:32 PM No.24487819
>>24484897 (OP)
It sounds gay, so no
It sounds gay, so no