Well that was an experience

Well that was an experience.
Have you read A Little Life, Yea Forums? What'd you think of it?

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M P B A F H

i am extremely ambivalent about it.
i found it very readable and burned through the whole thing in a week. it's obsessed with suffering and honestly gets a bit fucking ridiculous, by the end the revelations about jude's past ended up pure cartoon. it was salacious, i think. torture porn.
i found the friend group comfy as fuck as was their weird super successful ny lives which were pure mary sue fantasy. every character was like the embodiment of pure goodness and amazingness and again it felt pretty cartoony, but also enjoyable
i really liked the commitment to the idea that you can't fix trauma and that life is painful and sometimes it's just fucked. i think the psychology of jude was well done even if the circumstances were ludicrous
it was trash, but very enjoyable trash
what i'm trying to say is it was a guilty pleasure with speckles of insight

I read in here that it's torture porn, I watched Kat's review on it and it kinda seems intriguing but on the other hand do I really want to bother with ~700 pages or some shit of depressing wrecks? Doubt it

Why would you feel guilty about something that brings pleasure? It’s either pleasurable, which doesn’t have to be good—but it certainly doesn’t evoke guilt—or bad. Pleasure may be found in completing something robust; however, to say it was a guilty pleasure is a contradiction, user.

>Kat's review on it
Jesus christ

This girl in rehab was obsessed with this book and had some mommy dom complex with me and would always try to get me to make that face on the cover so now I cringe whenever I see it and refuse to read it.

Good post

Wahhh I got gang raped by monks when I was 13
Wahhh

Shut up, Jude.

i feel like i spelled out the distasteful and shallow elements in my post. although there was lot that i enjoyed, there was also a lot that was lacking. it gripped me because of its good qualities, but that doesn't mean it didn't have bad qualities

to this day i'm not sure which are the more prevailing

I prefer the term misery porn.

that's a bit more accurate i guess, although there is some good literal torture here too

The most unbased man alive

She was a coke fiend and got obnoxious very quickly

Bump

I agree that it comes off as misery porn, but at least for me, it felt like most of those scenes served a purpose.
What parts would you remove? The only thing I can think of to make the book more enjoyable is to
1) Remove the stuff with Dr. Traylor. He comes off as comically evil.
2) Maybe have the cops come and arrest Father Luke earlier.
Any other ideas?

my mom loved it way too much, but judging by description and reviews i'm going to find it very mildly enjoyable, mostly meh.

the most based man alive

you know the rules. post an excerpt which describes it so i dont have to look for it or skim the whole book to find it. i'll pay in drawings of whatever you like or Any word written beautifully

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