A Little Life

i wish i could get a refund for this piece of trash :(

I never wanted a novel to end as much as I wanted this one to end. The story was good but lord… the author went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on… about stuff that was useless…that added nothing to the story. Want to know the names of thirty people at a party? Then read this… To the Author: we all know you can write… now, get over yourself and tell a story. What a waste of a good story.

Literally the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read.

This book is tortured and exhausting. The author’s need to add extensive details and go off on tangents that add nothing to the story is frustrating. And the never ending descriptions of abuse and an inability to find any healing take good writing and turn it into an exhausting experience.

When people say this book is hard to read..it’s not necessarily because it’s that sad. It is a pitiful story and you feel for the characters but dear God it is an exhausting read. The amount of painful detail and rabbit holes the chapters go down, truly takes away from the story itself. So much so that by the end of it you’re just grateful it’s over regardless of the ending.

If you enjoy seriously listening / feeling the worst conditions of man and learning from them; you will love this book. It’s hard, it’s a difficult read but it is beautiful and thought provoking. It is not for the fragile.

Have never felt so many emotions in a course of the month it took me to finish this book. Cried and sobbed and wept like a baby - will be a book i will never forget for as long as I live.

I like the way the without forms her sentences.

This book is so moving and so well written!!!

I can’t help but give this precious, different, sad, and alarming story about an extraordinary man, who could not grow up, a five star rating. There are a lot of characters. For a reason. The reader might get discouraged with the barrage of people and scenes, but never fear… they will reappear throughout the novel revealing more each visit. The reader has time to know them better and understand what you learned earlier. Stick with this book, and the unique way the author writes. I’ve never read stream of conscience written this way. Tenses disappear. You start reading something and suddenly you are somewhere you didn’t know you were headed. This is true. For three months, I could not finish reading this novel. I read a few paragraphs and gratefully found something else to do. I only read while at a doctor’s appointment. I didn’t want to stop the pain. I wanted to see success. Was there a happy ending? And yet, it ended rather beautifully, and the rest the reader can discover for themselves. This special, great novel explores who you think you are. And if you are turned inside out, colorful and bleeding, engrossing and gross, who are you then? Who do you praise or blame?