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A review by alreadyover
Normal People by Sally Rooney
2.0
YAWWWWNNNNN. There were a lot of factors that went into me reading this much faster than ask again, yes but I do think in itself it says a lot about the depth and complexity and compelling nature of the latter! I sat with that book I reread segments I would look up from pages just to Ponder the situation and think of the characters and process all the decisions and character moments going on it was a thoughtful and thought provoking novel even though it's arguably just as 'mundane' and everyday as Normal People, centring a long-lasting romance between two key characters.
A book doesn't always have to be intellectual, complex, etc. I have no problem reading a fun entertaining book but this was also not particularly entertaining. It passed the time but I wasn't engrossed at continuously felt myself growing bored and irate. Rooney's writing is just so shallow and utilitarian it's why you can just snooze through it lol there's nothing to glean from each line other than its most basic meaning and nothing to glean from the characters. She tells you everything. The end especially feels funny to me because it strives for a sense of artistic ambiguity while this entire novel is horribly, incessantly to-the-point. There were a few paragraphs every once in a while that piqued my interest into these two characters lives, but it was never sufficient to carry the story. Ultimately both of these guys are really really boring. And Rooney's like oh but she likes freaky sex isn't that crazyyyyy. Girl who cares. That's my review actually. Girl who cares!
A book doesn't always have to be intellectual, complex, etc. I have no problem reading a fun entertaining book but this was also not particularly entertaining. It passed the time but I wasn't engrossed at continuously felt myself growing bored and irate. Rooney's writing is just so shallow and utilitarian it's why you can just snooze through it lol there's nothing to glean from each line other than its most basic meaning and nothing to glean from the characters. She tells you everything. The end especially feels funny to me because it strives for a sense of artistic ambiguity while this entire novel is horribly, incessantly to-the-point. There were a few paragraphs every once in a while that piqued my interest into these two characters lives, but it was never sufficient to carry the story. Ultimately both of these guys are really really boring. And Rooney's like oh but she likes freaky sex isn't that crazyyyyy. Girl who cares. That's my review actually. Girl who cares!