![]() ![]() Which brings us to the second point of disconnect. And fifty years later we have the exact same? At the beginning of the novel, we have laptops and cellphones and corporate lawyers and gay marriage and discrimination based on sexual orientation. Now, I understand this was probably the author's intention, a means to not let the story get bogged down by trivial matters (my wife disagrees and says it's just lazy writing), but it's still distracting. Despite spanning some fifty years, the novel has a very contemporary feel to it. In A Little Life, time progresses, but the world doesn't change. At the same time, Jude seems to exist in a completely different universe than the one I live in. The truth is, I felt considerable disconnect. But for a 720-page epic supposed tear-jerked, these moments were too few. That's not to say I didn't have moments when I felt a little teary-eyed. ![]() And while A Little Life was certainly well-written and intriguing, the one thing it didn't succeed at was moving me. ![]() A Little Life promised to be “the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season.” I expected raw emotion to wet every page of this novel. ![]() Show More beauty, fear, rage, wonder, whatever. ![]()
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