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Ein wenig Leben by Hanya Yanagihara

2538 reviews

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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emotional sad slow-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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challenging emotional sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Devastatingly beautiful story. This book will wreck you emotionally. 
Very slow start with so many introductions, it's hard to keep everyone straight. The timeline is also confusing at the beginning. 
**PUSH THROUGH IT** You will be rewarded with such a real, gut punch, emotional touching story.
Friendships that are deep, real & meaningful and take on so many different forms throughout life.

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It took me years to get around to this book because it is so incredibly polarizing. Now that I’ve done it, I can confidently say that it is probably one of the most beautifully raw stories ever written about the human condition. I disagree with reviews that classified this book as ā€œtorture pornā€; it’s an extreme reduction of the very real issues explored in the book. This is not a story about how some people are irredeemable, but about how sometimes despite an abundance of good, some traumas are too hard for the human psyche to let go of. Due to some of the content explored in this book, trigger warnings are necessary but if someone can withstand it, then they should definitely read this book. 


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challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I only started reading this because I wanted to see if it makes me cry. Spoiler alert!
It didn't
.  Don't get me wrong,
the ending is absolutely sad with how Jude had to get his leg amputated, and despite that he was living his best life with Willem only for Willem to die in an accident. Of course, not standing the lost, Jude decided to euthanize himself, Iassume.
Either way, I absolutely hated reading this book. I know, you might be wondering "tHeN wHy tHe hAEWLl diD yOu reAD iT?". Well...I spent a fuckton of my saved up allowance to buy this book so OBVIOUSLY I have to finish reading this šŸ˜šŸ’¢šŸ’¢

Anyways, what I originally came here to say is that;
1. I think the author hates men so much that she didn't know any legal way to torture them, so she decided to write this book
2. All the characters suck and I hate every and each one of them (yes, some characters including Jude, Willem, Harold, etc...oh JB included too cause how can I forget that fuck?)
3. The ending was kind of sad (only at an atomic level, okay?), so I'll give .25 for that
4. The writing is godawful (I don't wanna be too mean about this cause beauty is in the eye of beholder and this is not my beauty)

Overall, I'm happy to end this journey and excited to move onto the next thing cause I know at least it's gonna be better than whatever this was..

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challenging emotional sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Oh my gods.  This book is painful and beautiful and haunting and powerful all rolled together. Yanahihara is a beautiful writer and the way she writes is effortlessly sublime. This book shows the worst of people and the best of others, tracking the way that extreme trauma and abuse can change the very fabric of how one views themselves. Despite good looks, money, friends, success, and deeply profound love—trauma and the ghosts left behind persevere.  The story clearly depicts how, even at its most annoying, frustrating, and infuriating someone’s lack of faith in themself can be, so often it’s the result of something beyond reason. I really loved the way the story unfolded, from different perspective and back and forth between time.
I LOVED the importance this book gave friendship.
 ā€œWhy wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return..ā€
Only knocked off 0.25 because I felt it didn’t need to be quite so long. And because I felt like Jude didn’t need quite so much trauma. 

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