I gotta ask since I heard this made many people cry but to me

>>9279144
I thought Jude was legitimately sympathetic at the beginning, and I thought it was well crafted.

Around the time he got together with the psychotic ablist abuser the book crossed over into surrealist suffering porn ala Brett Easton Ellis, and I lost my connection with the character

>>9279144
THIS book is some corny shit.

Literary fiction for Goodreads girls.

>>9279154
I agree, it was just waay too much suffering to me. When I read that part I thought it was supposed to be a nightmare sequence.

I did get fairly moved when Jude watches Willem accept an award on tv and thanks Jude last but that was because it was nice, not sad.

>>9279159
I disagree. She is clearly guilty of some of that (the endless faggotry, the celebrity main characters becoming celebrities, the shit prose.

But on the other side, the sheer amount of misery inflicted on her characters is up there with Marquez and Hardy. I would never recommend this book to my mom and sister.

>>9279161
The novel dropped alot in my estimation when I realized that Willem was just a plot device to push Jude over the edge

>>9279161
btw, the NYRB savaged her. This article lost her the man booker imo

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/12/03/striptease-among-pals/

I fucking hate this book.

I bought it, read about 60 pages, and put it down forever.

If you sympathize with any of the characters you're a middle class white suburbanite who fetishizes real suffering to the point of making it a fashion accessory.

This book it what you get when you strip all the humanity from a character and replace it with a fucked up backstory.
It's a bastardization of real literature for sheltered idiots.

Don't waste your time with this overlong drivel written by a woman with severe sexual problems.

>>9279209
I didn't really sympathize with anyone because every character in this damn book is a prodigy mastermind in some field or another but I still liked Jude and wished that he would find happiness.

It's a pretty good book imo but it gets worse after the first half.

Huh my wife bought this for me today. Great to see /lit/ slamming it.

Fuck.

>>9279328
Use it for a drink coaster

Got about 70 or 80 pages in then it started to read like Michael Chabon or gay-friendly nonsense that makes the book suffer because there's some sort of agenda going on. Won't come back to it.

>>9279328
Wait, do you actually trust /lit/'s taste on anything?

>>9279407
triggered

>>9279407
I hate this book... but Chabon's great, you fucking meme

>>9279407
back to /pol/, you faggot

>>9279407
>the agenda!

lmao

>>9279328
Its worth the read, at least its something different

>>9279209
>This book it what you get when you strip all the humanity from a character and replace it with a fucked up backstory.
I hated it less than most, but this is astute