![]() ![]() It became pathetic and meaningless after the 100th sorry exchanged in the book. Even his fights with Jude are poetic, enviable, romantic. ![]() But he is consistently portrayed as this loyal Labrador of a human, an angel. ![]() Willem cheats on his partner of 3-4 years because he is "bored". Wouldn't have his friends understood this about him? Or been more compassionate towards his drug addiction and his state while ill, when the whole book is about friendship and compassion? The kiss with Jude at the end? Confusing. JB's character: Why was JB made to be the 'bad' or 'evil' friend? To create some friend drama? He is often portrayed to have genuinely loved his friends even with his prickly personality. 4 friends in 4 difficult, competitive career fields (art-film-law-architecture), but somehow all of them become super successful, rich, and fabulous without much struggle beyond a few doubts here and there? A number of elements and inconsistencies bothered me: It is one thing to read a book that is unrealistic from the get-go and another to start a book that is realistic but slowly -in this book's case, very slowly, given the 816 pages- unravels into scenarios and scenarios of improbability. I just read A Little Life, and would love to hear thoughts from others too. ![]()
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