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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, b..more
Published March 10th 2015 by Doubleday
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DemisI feel the author deliberately kept the years ambiguous, wiping each chapter clean of all traces of any defining cultural / technological landmarks…moreI feel the author deliberately kept the years ambiguous, wiping each chapter clean of all traces of any defining cultural / technological landmarks that would place a scene in a particular year. The entire story exists in a time that feels a lot like now (or now-ish) as a result - felt like a very deliberate ambiguity, and another of the things that gave the book a rather unique vibe. Perhaps the point is the time isn't important - keeps the focus on the characters, and the idea that the issues dealt with were timeless.(less)
TawnyTayor, there were a couple of times I had to put the book down and pick up something else because of the horror of what was happening. But I always…moreTayor, there were a couple of times I had to put the book down and pick up something else because of the horror of what was happening. But I always came back to it and saw it through to the end. If you don't want graphic, this is not the book for you. 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.(less)
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5 THINGS I LIKED ABOUT A LITTLE LIFE
(AND 5 THINGS I DIDN'T)
Everyone’s talking about Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker- and National Book Award-nominated blockbuster novel. There are lots of 5 star raves on this site. Many people are saying it’s one of the most incredible books they’ve ever read. I hate to be the outlier or considered cold-hearted (I’m not! I cry over books and movies ALL THE TIME!!!). The book took me just under 2 weeks to finish, and I’m glad I read it. I liked it, I really liked it! B..more
(AND 5 THINGS I DIDN'T)
Everyone’s talking about Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker- and National Book Award-nominated blockbuster novel. There are lots of 5 star raves on this site. Many people are saying it’s one of the most incredible books they’ve ever read. I hate to be the outlier or considered cold-hearted (I’m not! I cry over books and movies ALL THE TIME!!!). The book took me just under 2 weeks to finish, and I’m glad I read it. I liked it, I really liked it! B..more
Jun 09, 2015Michael Flick rated it did not like it
Some believe that this is “The Great Gay Novel.” That couldn’t be more wrong. There are only two recognizable gay men in this work, JB and Caleb. A creative queen and a violent, probably psychopathic, sadist. 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). The take on gay men here is antediluvian—a dangerous and discred..more
Mar 24, 2015Emily May rated it liked it
A Little Life is a strong contender for the award for the most depressing book I've ever read. I swear I'm not even exaggerating.
At this point, I'm not certain whether this is a positive or negative review. There's no doubt that this book is beautifully-written and contains some of the most raw and honest prose I've ever had the pleasure or misfortune of reading, but it's along very long character study - over 700 pages of misery, substance abuse, self-harm, sexual and psychological abuse (and..more
Aug 13, 2015Thomas rated it it was amazingAt this point, I'm not certain whether this is a positive or negative review. There's no doubt that this book is beautifully-written and contains some of the most raw and honest prose I've ever had the pleasure or misfortune of reading, but it's a
Shelves: realistic-fiction, five-stars, own-physical, adult-fiction, favorites, lgbtq
I slept with this book after I read it. I kid you not: I held its bulking, hardcover bound 700 pages in my arms as I fell asleep amid a raging storm. I refused to let A Little Life leave me. Its brilliant writing, its broken characters, and its bleak, unforgiving story dug into my heart, into the very pores of my skin. As a twenty-year-old, I felt both so young and so old upon finishing this novel, as if its sheer humanity aged my soul while making me appreciate all the years I still have left.
A..more
Jan 25, 2015Jessica Woodbury rated it it was amazingA..more
Shelves: arc, authors-of-color, lgbtq, bff, best-2015-arcs, kindle
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. Sometimes you just know.
A LITTLE LIFE is a title with 3 meanings. First, it refers to its protagonist, Jude, a man who cannot ever accept that his life is worthwhile. Second, it refers to the act of reading it, spending time in this book is really like living a version of life.
There is a third meaning, one that you don't discover until around halfway through the book when..more
A LITTLE LIFE is a title with 3 meanings. First, it refers to its protagonist, Jude, a man who cannot ever accept that his life is worthwhile. Second, it refers to the act of reading it, spending time in this book is really like living a version of life.
There is a third meaning, one that you don't discover until around halfway through the book when..more
Feb 10, 2015Maxwell rated it it was amazing
I can't, with a clear conscience, give this book anything less than 5 stars. It's a book that kept me reading long into the night, made me turn each page with vigor and curiosity, gave me chills and shivers over the joys and sorrows of each character, and ultimately left me feeling a bit older and tortured and yet at peace with the deeply complicated nature of humanity.
What Hanya Yanagihara does with A Little Life is nothing nearly as pretentious as that paragraph above. Somehow in 720 pages, s..more
What Hanya Yanagihara does with A Little Life is nothing nearly as pretentious as that paragraph above. Somehow in 720 pages, s..more
Brilliant, devastating, heartbreaking. Fucking hatefully sad at times. There are places that are overwrought and overwritten but this is an amazing, engrossing novel. Just wow.
Mar 15, 2015Estelle rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Brace yourself for the most melodramatic, pretentious, dull, dumb, overwritten, repetitive, laughable, cringe-inducing, self-indulgent, unbelievable, stereotypical, voyeuristic, contrived piece of fiction.
After pushing through and trying to motivate myself to finish this book just to see if there's more to it or some kind of message there.. I'm putting this book down for good.
90% in. Normally, I would have kept going just to find out what happens to the characters, but honestly I care so litt..more
After pushing through and trying to motivate myself to finish this book just to see if there's more to it or some kind of message there.. I'm putting this book down for good.
90% in. Normally, I would have kept going just to find out what happens to the characters, but honestly I care so litt..more
Sep 23, 2015Victoria Schwab rated it it was amazing
Jesus Christ.
I cried for an HOUR last night.
This freaking book.
I cried for an HOUR last night.
This freaking book.
Jan 30, 2015Alexander Patino rated it it was amazing
You get a first read only once. I don't know what to say. It's the book of my life. Not that it mirrors my life, but that it's the literary love of my life. I know I get hyperbolic about this kind of stuff, but it is what it is. The most cathartic reading experience I've ever had. I'm shaking and crying writing this. How to move on after this one - hard to imagine I will.
Mar 09, 2015Gin Jenny (Reading the End) rated it did not like it
Note: I received an ebook copy of this book from the publisher for review consideration.
Around page 150 of Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel, A Little Life, which follows four friends from their college years into their fifties, I wrote the following in my notes:
I am more excited about Hanya Yanagihara and her work and her career than I have been about any author in a really long time.
Around page 200 I wrote this:
Is Jude’s suffering perhaps a tad overwrought? It is starting to seem like everything..more
Dec 13, 2015Ashley rated it did not like itAround page 150 of Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel, A Little Life, which follows four friends from their college years into their fifties, I wrote the following in my notes:
I am more excited about Hanya Yanagihara and her work and her career than I have been about any author in a really long time.
Around page 200 I wrote this:
Is Jude’s suffering perhaps a tad overwrought? It is starting to seem like everything..more
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Fuck this book.
And it started out so well! The writing is actually gorgeous. I can see why many, many people like this book. Really, Hanya Yanagihara knows how to use language. Unfortunately, the story she told was not worthy of it. The longer I read this book, the more I dreaded reading it, the worse my feelings got as I read, and the more I hated it for existing. Then I read a bunch of interviews by her and hated the book even more.
The long and short of it is that this book is nothing but mise..more
And it started out so well! The writing is actually gorgeous. I can see why many, many people like this book. Really, Hanya Yanagihara knows how to use language. Unfortunately, the story she told was not worthy of it. The longer I read this book, the more I dreaded reading it, the worse my feelings got as I read, and the more I hated it for existing. Then I read a bunch of interviews by her and hated the book even more.
The long and short of it is that this book is nothing but mise..more
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I decided to spend some of my weekend, which turned out to be all day today, catching up on some reading. I started A Little Life sometime in January, but had to put it down a few times due to time restrictions on other books. Plus, this book is colossal. It's a smidge over 700 pages.
I'll start by saying that I can't recollect the last time I felt so connected to characters in a story. I was so consumed with the fou..more
I decided to spend some of my weekend, which turned out to be all day today, catching up on some reading. I started A Little Life sometime in January, but had to put it down a few times due to time restrictions on other books. Plus, this book is colossal. It's a smidge over 700 pages.
I'll start by saying that I can't recollect the last time I felt so connected to characters in a story. I was so consumed with the fou..more
Sep 28, 2015Kai rated it did not like it · review of another edition
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
Two months. Books usually don't take me this long to be read. Even long books don't. So what's the reason I was stuck with this book for so long?
Let's see. The never ending suffering and pain. The exaggerated and gross cruelty. The sadistic hopelessness. That's why.
I had such high expectations. And it would have been so easy to meet them. All I longed for while reading thi..more
Two months. Books usually don't take me this long to be read. Even long books don't. So what's the reason I was stuck with this book for so long?
Let's see. The never ending suffering and pain. The exaggerated and gross cruelty. The sadistic hopelessness. That's why.
I had such high expectations. And it would have been so easy to meet them. All I longed for while reading thi..more
Apr 23, 2019jessica rated it it was amazing
i have died a hundred deaths and shed a thousand tears whilst reading this book. it feels as if i have never truly known grief until this moment. how does one recover from such heartbreak?
i am at a complete loss, in a devastatingly beautiful way, but how comforting it is to know that a story about a little life has become such a significant part of mine.
↠ 5 stars
Jan 13, 2015Nick Pageant rated it it was amazing · review of another editioni am at a complete loss, in a devastatingly beautiful way, but how comforting it is to know that a story about a little life has become such a significant part of mine.
↠ 5 stars
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life
Shelves: gay-lit, favorite-rereadable, classic, alonamakesbooksbetter, gen-fic
A Little Life is a powerful, disturbing novel. It's full of pain, desperation, and a sense of isolating sadness that sucks the reader into some very dark places. It's also the best book I've read in years.
Reading the blurb, you'll get the idea that this work is about 4 college friends and their lives, but that's not entirely true. While each of the 4 main characters, and in fact all the characters in the book, are fully realized with extraordinary character development, the book is really about..more
Reading the blurb, you'll get the idea that this work is about 4 college friends and their lives, but that's not entirely true. While each of the 4 main characters, and in fact all the characters in the book, are fully realized with extraordinary character development, the book is really about..more
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Heed my warning: do not pick this book up if you're having a bad day! 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.
There are many excellent reviews out there should you wish to delve into the micro details of the plot. But it's not my style to give so much away so I'll limit myself to a few lines on this. Ostensibly it's the tale of four students (Jude, Willem, M..more
Mar 27, 2016Navidad Thélamour rated it it was amazingThere are many excellent reviews out there should you wish to delve into the micro details of the plot. But it's not my style to give so much away so I'll limit myself to a few lines on this. Ostensibly it's the tale of four students (Jude, Willem, M..more
Shelves: lit-fic, reviewed-on-barnesandnoble, read-2016, oh-where-have-you-been-all-my-life, full-review, reviewed-on-amazon, contemporary-fiction, made-me-cry
First of all, let me say that A Little Life was exactly what I’ve been looking for, hence the category that it’s been assigned to. This novel was so rich in raw, uninhibited emotion, in the true unveiling of life’s effervescence, horrors and humanity, that I didn’t feel that I was trudging through a thick read—though, believe me, it’s thick!—I felt that I was on a 40-year Hajj with these characters, a journey that, like real life, takes you over lofty and decadent highs then drags you through tr..more
Jan 30, 2015Angela M rated it it was amazing
I read because I want a story to take me somewhere to experience a place I don't know . Not necessarily another city or country or continent a but a place in my heart and soul that I didn't know was there. This is where A Little Life took me . It consumed me for these last few days as I read late at night and then woke up thinking about Jude St. Francis . The book description will tell you that this is about the decades long friendships of four men who meet in college , about the careers they ch..more
Such an incredibly hard book to read, and yet a beautiful book too, on the true meaning of friendship. Written so tenderly, poignantly and with raw honesty. The characters run the gamut from those among us who are the most cruel, the most hateful and those who are able to offer a love that is profound, unconditional and where many of us probably fall, wanting to be better than we are.
The characters are human, flawed, some almost too good to be true, and yet it is the moments we don't see, that w..more
The characters are human, flawed, some almost too good to be true, and yet it is the moments we don't see, that w..more
Aug 11, 2016Nat rated it really liked it
I was hesitant at first with picking this up because I thought A Little Life revolved around four white dudes and their #whitepeopleproblems. But oh, was I incredibly mistaken. The cast of characters in this one is far from what I thought; it tackles a variety of topics such as sexuality, race, disabilities, mental illness, and so much more.
Not what I expected and for once, I was glad to be so off-track.
If you're looking to diversify your reading (as you should!!), this book has it all:
• POC cha..more
Not what I expected and for once, I was glad to be so off-track.
If you're looking to diversify your reading (as you should!!), this book has it all:
• POC cha..more
Is there life after A Little Life? Finished this book seconds ago and I'm not sure I'll ever be able to adequately describe how I feel about it.
8/12/15 Edited to add my longer review:
Let me just begin by saying that I absolutely loved this book and there’s no way this little review of mine will do it justice. I’m going to attempt to explain how I feel about this book anyway. I will admit that right now it’s too precious to me and I cannot highlight any flaws, but what review is objective?
A Litt..more
8/12/15 Edited to add my longer review:
Let me just begin by saying that I absolutely loved this book and there’s no way this little review of mine will do it justice. I’m going to attempt to explain how I feel about this book anyway. I will admit that right now it’s too precious to me and I cannot highlight any flaws, but what review is objective?
A Litt..more
It's a difficult novel to summarize the philosophical tone of this novel. It is at the same time wry, realistic, acutely sensitive..(disturbing examination of the lifelong abuse of one of the characters), ...and the type of book you read once in a lifetime.
Just as in real life.. Friendships build more friends.. Expanding the community circle.
At the start of friendships (which will span over many years)..
Four students: Willem, Jude, Jd, and Malcom share a cinder-blocked common dormitor..more
Just as in real life.. Friendships build more friends.. Expanding the community circle.
At the start of friendships (which will span over many years)..
Four students: Willem, Jude, Jd, and Malcom share a cinder-blocked common dormitor..more
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly..
It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker
Author is Proud of Her Successful Plan to Manipulate Readers into Feeling the nth Degree of Misery and Sorrow Upon Reading This
I hate this novel. Yes, hate. It's an extremely elongated form of a circle tear jerk.
In this [Vulture piece] the author discussed how she was inspired to create a novel of ombré cloth. If you don't know, an ombré cloth is one that by the time you get to the end is pitch..more
It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker
Author is Proud of Her Successful Plan to Manipulate Readers into Feeling the nth Degree of Misery and Sorrow Upon Reading This
I hate this novel. Yes, hate. It's an extremely elongated form of a circle tear jerk.
In this [Vulture piece] the author discussed how she was inspired to create a novel of ombré cloth. If you don't know, an ombré cloth is one that by the time you get to the end is pitch..more
Nov 16, 2017Carol (Bookaria) rated it really liked it
After finishing this book I'm a little dead inside.
Before reading A Little Life somebody described it to me as 'emotionally gut-wrenching' and being the coward that I am I avoided reading it until this month, when our book club selected it for discussion.
The story follows the lives of four men starting from their college years and continuing for decades throughout their lives. The author is brilliant and did an excellent job drawing these complex characters.
The writing is beautiful. The story..more
Before reading A Little Life somebody described it to me as 'emotionally gut-wrenching' and being the coward that I am I avoided reading it until this month, when our book club selected it for discussion.
The story follows the lives of four men starting from their college years and continuing for decades throughout their lives. The author is brilliant and did an excellent job drawing these complex characters.
The writing is beautiful. The story..more
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Jan 19, 2019Anne rated it it was amazing
It's been almost two months since I finished reading this book and I still haven't found the proper words for my review. How can I formulate what I feel about this piece of perfection? I don't think I will ever be able to give it the justice it deserves, but I might as well try to at least write something, because not writing a review at all doesn't seem right either.
Let me start off with saying that I read this while being in a major reading slump. Why did I pick such a long and heavy book whil..more
Let me start off with saying that I read this while being in a major reading slump. Why did I pick such a long and heavy book whil..more
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I'll cut to the chase on this one fairly quickly: Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is nothing short of an utter masterpiece. This book is one of the most dazzlingly brilliant, emotionally moving books I've ever read, and it will be a long time before I can get these characters and their story out of my head. And truth be told, as painful as this book was in places, I don't know if I want to be rid of these characters anytime soon.
'It is always easier to believe what you already think than to t..more
'It is always easier to believe what you already think than to t..more
I'm having really bad luck with long novels these days. 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. Everything was supremely unbelievable, especially the fact that Jude's life could be so perfect and his past and demons could be so traumatic. Did anyone ever just meet this guy and think, 'meh, what a sad sack'? Did he ever take an exam and make a B? Did he ever just want to go to the movies or watch Netflix?..more
Mar 26, 2015Jennifer Masterson rated it it was amazing
'A Little Life' is one of the best books of the year, if not decade. It will be talked about for generations. What Yanagihara has created is unlike anything I have ever read. This book is Pulitzer material and sure to become a modern classic.
'A Little Life' is about 4 men who meet at a college in Massachusetts (Jude, Willem, Malcolm and JB) and they stay friends long after college is over. The book spans decades. Without giving away too much, it is truly about the character, Jude St. Francis, an..more
'A Little Life' is about 4 men who meet at a college in Massachusetts (Jude, Willem, Malcolm and JB) and they stay friends long after college is over. The book spans decades. Without giving away too much, it is truly about the character, Jude St. Francis, an..more
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“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. But the best, as well.” — 1462 likes
“..things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.” — 890 likes
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