Thank you. Finally a really smart and informative review of this amazing book that’s not watching someone cry! Love your story about reading this in reverse. Very balanced, and as you said - light spoilers, and totally agree with you. 😊
I appreciate this review. I’m in agreement with his assessment of the author. Grief brings empathy for others and self.the pain is the cost of knowing., This book will remain as a reference for me. Thank you for your sharing. I am happy for your kindness and grace . Thank you.
I cannot tell you how much I loved your description of this book, and of the authors possible motivation for how she wrote it. I just finished the book tonight, and needed to hear someone else’s thoughts. Thanks for this video.
Fantastic review! I think it reveals the reality of life which can be as bad or even worse, but you rarely seen mentioned in fiction. I know people who have similar experience as Jude and this book suddenly made me understand them so much better than I did before. It is my favourite book and if you haven’t seen the play that is now running in West End and broadcasted online, I definitely recommend. There are things the play differs from the book but the impact it gives you is much more than the book. Also have you read about how she wrote the book? How she saw photographs and paintings and decided to write the book around them? It is amazing, she showed a few paintings and photos that inspired the book and it is like seeing the book and certain sciences in real life!
A LITTLE LIFE is on the top of my list of THE TEN MOST DEPRESSING BOOKS I have ever read, and not only because it is a veritable cornucopia of despair, but because it is boring and badly written There are no genuine loyalties here -- nothing relieves the stasis -- there is unremitting gloom and sadism. None of the characters is credible, nor are any of the situations realistic. It demanded infinite patience from the reader and offered nothing in return, of energy or hope or love. There is no growth, just tedious repetition of unpalatable events. All I can credit the author for is infinite unimaginative perseverance in writing a dreadful book. I highly recommend an earlier and much more tragic JUDE: JUDE THE OBSCURE by Thomas Hardy. Because the character is deeply written and his suffering and his growth are inflicted by the synergy of forces beyond his control and his own frailty, the reader cares about his life and loss, and feels his agonies personally, there is genuine tragedy here. Surely the choice of the protagonist's name in A LITTLE LIFE was a conscious one.
I loved the characters but I felt so miserable after finish it. Even though, it was a great experience and I like to read a chapter called 'Happy Years', which is one of the few happy moments :) Thank you for your review
Started but didn’t finish it. Can’t remember if it was good or bad
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It should have won the Booker Prize. Maybe its bisexual/homosexual content made them not do so. Pure conjecture on that one. I also think Willem and his fate is as important as Jude's and it is in its own way a love story between the two of them. Have you ever tried reading Proust from ' Time Regained ' to '' Combray ? ' It works like following a full river to its source.
Thank you. Finally a really smart and informative review of this amazing book that’s not watching someone cry! Love your story about reading this in reverse. Very balanced, and as you said - light spoilers, and totally agree with you. 😊
Very enjoyable review. Maybe even better than the book itself. You are doing a terrific job reviewing this book. Now I want to read it too.
I appreciate this review. I’m in agreement with his assessment of the author. Grief brings empathy for others and self.the pain is the cost of knowing., This book will remain as a reference for me. Thank you for your sharing. I am happy for your kindness and grace . Thank you.
I cannot tell you how much I loved your description of this book, and of the authors possible motivation for how she wrote it. I just finished the book tonight, and needed to hear someone else’s thoughts. Thanks for this video.
Fantastic review! I think it reveals the reality of life which can be as bad or even worse, but you rarely seen mentioned in fiction. I know people who have similar experience as Jude and this book suddenly made me understand them so much better than I did before. It is my favourite book and if you haven’t seen the play that is now running in West End and broadcasted online, I definitely recommend. There are things the play differs from the book but the impact it gives you is much more than the book. Also have you read about how she wrote the book? How she saw photographs and paintings and decided to write the book around them? It is amazing, she showed a few paintings and photos that inspired the book and it is like seeing the book and certain sciences in real life!
I cried reading watching your review. I'd love you to do a video of your favorite books
A LITTLE LIFE is on the top of my list of THE TEN MOST DEPRESSING BOOKS I have ever read, and not only because it is a veritable cornucopia of despair, but because it is boring and badly written
There are no genuine loyalties here -- nothing relieves the stasis -- there is unremitting gloom and sadism. None of the characters is credible, nor are any of the situations realistic. It demanded infinite patience from the reader and offered nothing in return, of energy or hope or love. There is no growth, just tedious repetition of unpalatable events. All I can credit the author for is infinite unimaginative perseverance in writing a dreadful book.
I highly recommend an earlier and much more tragic JUDE: JUDE THE OBSCURE by Thomas Hardy. Because the character is deeply written and his suffering and his growth are inflicted by the synergy of forces beyond his control and his own frailty, the reader cares about his life and loss, and feels his agonies personally, there is genuine tragedy here. Surely the choice of the protagonist's name in A LITTLE LIFE was a conscious one.
feedback like this reassures me that I definitely don't want to read it!
I enjoyed this when I read it and was fully invested, but I can also understand most of the criticism.
I loved the characters but I felt so miserable after finish it. Even though, it was a great experience and I like to read a chapter called 'Happy Years', which is one of the few happy moments :) Thank you for your review
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher
Be like me and listen while you read the text in tandem 😂💕🎧📖
I stand convinced.
Started but didn’t finish it. Can’t remember if it was good or bad
It should have won the Booker Prize. Maybe its bisexual/homosexual content made them not do so. Pure conjecture on that one. I also think Willem and his fate is as important as Jude's and it is in its own way a love story between the two of them. Have you ever tried reading Proust from ' Time Regained ' to '' Combray ? ' It works like following a full river to its source.
I haven’t but thanks for putting on my radar!
I read a short excerpt. The prose is agonizingly bad.