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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

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lindseyhall44's review

challenging emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“I feel ugly, like I’m a bad person, and yet I’d like to be loved.
Reading this book, I felt seen in so many different ways. No one captures the beauty and darkness of girlhood like Ferrante. This might be my favorite of hers.

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bethvance's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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honestlysean's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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lordcass's review

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I wasn’t interested enough in the main character’s story or hardly at all. I also immediately lost interest when sex was introduced as a topic since some 21 year old man wanted to be sexual with the mc and she allowed it in a weird way that didn’t add to the plot and just made me care even less about the story. The plot didn’t move at all and typically I enjoy plotless leaning books so I can tell this just really wasn’t for me.

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augie_'s review

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emotional tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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patroklos's review against another edition

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medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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sianjkh's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

i wanted to like this so bad. i wanted this book to become a necessity for my life as i know it. when i read the opening line, "[t]wo years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly" i texted everyone i knew a picture of the page with the caption "holy fuck"

the writing is gorgeous. i mourn the writing lost in translation if the writing that was kept is this good. unfortunately, this book drags on for an eternity; spanning the course of two years and a miriad of issues only rich people deal with. however i will in fact be reading the rest of ferrante's work.

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squidsbooks's review

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challenging funny reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This is unfortunately my first Elena Ferrante novel, and I am not super impressed.

I enjoyed the contrast of rich and poor, especially when considering the difference in problems they had. I found each of the characters brutally honest, to a point where they felt too dramatic and flat. I guess a major point of the book was that people are the way they are and that life is not what adults make it seem like to kids, but still I felt this was much too miserable from every character’s perspective. Maybe I am too optimistic.

The writing was beautiful and I will definitely be giving Elena Ferrante another go!

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charliesbooks's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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ktkeps's review

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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