@brittanywantsbooks: Coming back from a long hiatus to yell about how much I hated A Little Life #alittlelife #hanyayanagihara #litfic

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meldelimon
meldelimon :
"im a hater of the book a little life"
2026-10-07 18:56:36
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armands_divorce_lawyer
Armand's divorce lawyer :
I saw a theory that it was a trauma porn marauders fanfiction and like yeah probably
2026-10-07 13:10:03
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liam_._riley
Liam :
I can’t stand those “and then another terrible, and then ANOTHER TERRIBLE THING, AND THEN ANOTHER TERRIBLE THING” books, they’re so dull and unrealistic
2026-10-07 11:41:18
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violet_elaine
violet elaine :
“because I am a hater of the book A Little Li-“ immediately liked
2026-10-07 01:35:00
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deepfriedtowel
deepfriedtowel :
horrible book. aside from the trauma porn of it all, I was laughing my ass off at him being a lawyer singer mathematician pastry chef with 0 flaws
2026-10-14 15:49:37
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shadowprincess56
Shadow Princess :
My biggest criticism is the whole "sometimes suic!de really is the answer" ending. Because I legitimately can't imagine a more dangerous moral to give a book
2026-10-07 22:04:36
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alexandraashlen
Alexandra :
Everything I learn about this book is A. against my will and B. reminds me of this guy
2026-10-07 21:45:00
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forevergng
z :
normalize hating that book
2026-10-07 10:22:30
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itssky17
Sky :
I remember A Little Life being super popular a couple years ago and hearing about it everywhere. I looked up the plot and when I saw it was just a guy falling out of the trauma tree and hitting every branch on the way down, I knew I would never read it
2026-10-07 11:09:21
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greenleafwtr
æsc 🌿🌞 :
I think there’s an idea some people have that the more suffering/negativity a novel contains, the deeper or more profound it is. Trauma for the sake of trauma doesn’t make an interesting plot.
2026-10-07 10:18:25
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akuapokuah_
akua 🌷🌷 :
when it revealed he was kidnapped for months 😭😭😭 like it gets to a point
2026-10-07 21:10:58
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user46774661
❀ :
it's just a badly written hurt/no comfort fanfic that should've stayed on ao3
2026-10-07 10:53:52
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wlwardens
TheFraggleIsMyFavoriteCD :
This book is me when I get bored in the sims and just start destroying their lives in increasingly cartoonish ways
2026-10-07 13:01:26
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apat100
Adam :
“You wish he would aim” is WILD
2026-10-14 15:26:00
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m4gicisland
chess 🫶🏻 :
thinking about the depictions of self harm in this book, specifically that part near the sink, still makes me feel like i need to vomit
2026-10-14 04:56:57
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mariagg_02
maría 🌷 :
I saw it on my public library and decided to read it because it was so famous it was absolutely horrible, it really felt like trauma porn and it really never made sense because it was only disgraces
2026-10-14 16:01:06
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parradise211
parradise211 :
she did..... no research..... on abse BEFORE WRITING IT IN A NOVEL?? 😭
2026-10-14 03:05:02
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yaeshani
aisha :
when i heard it was originally a wolfstar fic everything made sense to me because all the young dudes (and subsequently every wolfstar fic) tortured lupine exactly like jude
2026-10-07 15:15:02
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tamsinhellens
Tamsin7858 :
I feel like some women have a fascination with gay male suffering. I remember growing up and reading fan fictions where the male lead was being subject to violence from parental figures and peers and it became such a running theme I had to stop reading them entirely.
2026-10-07 13:11:56
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mr_emmet
Mr_Emmet :
This book nearly broke me. Not in a trauma way, in a “why is this so nonsensical” way. Why has Yanigahara never spoken to men about male friendship. It was the equivalent of “she breasted boobily down the stairs” with men and their emotions.
2026-10-07 17:13:26
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coopercodes
📚 coops 📚 :
I’m convinced Yanigahara is homophobic, I’m just waiting for it to come out. It’s problematic literature
2026-10-07 01:22:02
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dr.sigmund
Dr. Sigmund Freud :
post the 15 minute rant omg
2026-10-07 11:44:23
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eireneliv
Eirene :
i simply could not get over the fact that the characters had the exact same personalities throughout the whole book, how can a person act the same way in their 60s as they did in their 30s??
2026-10-07 13:59:31
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xxailea
xixi :
on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong is what a little life wishes it was
2026-10-07 12:17:35
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therealvenus888
Venus :
Therapy is shit. I didn’t change (quit drinking, lost weight, stopped old cycles) until I went inward. Therapy is shit and worthless
2026-10-07 16:24:37
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