Things that are edition specific may also be skipped depending on the audiobook you get!

I wanted this book so much as a kid but never got it. I was looking into buying it just a few months ago!

Not from India myself, but I symphatize. This is easily the worst take I read since the glory days of tumblr when some enlightened Americans would talk about whether Hindus criticizing the caste system was internalized racism. Much like with this post, I couldn't tell if they were that stupid or just trolling.

I’m reading Win at the moment. At least the chapter length in this book allows an idea to be developed 😂

I 100% misread the title...

Can definitely relate to this description of his writing style 🥴

Checkov's Gun. My favourite writing technique in storytelling.

I think about cinderumplestilskin every day

I read it recently and really like it. I found the style interesting and engaging and it was a great snapshot of the past. Also funny!

I strongly dislike this book.

I download ebooks from my library. Sometimes I know within 20 pages if it’s a book that I want to hold and possess, so I order the book and return the ebook.

Very similar, though Tara is a better writer.

Seconded. African food has some banger dishes. Peanut butter soup and goat curry all the way.

It's such an elegant little novella with very little it that is extraneous. We have all, to some degree, been as callow as Holden, albeit in different ways.

Wonderful book!

I read this book in college and it definitely changed how I think about people living in poverty and how it affects their children. It amazes me how the author was able to advocate for herself, go to college, and stop the cycles that occured in the family. There is a movie version that doesn't hit as hard as the book, but was still well done in my opinion.

Everyone who is writing that it’s part of Bateman’s masquerade is right - but what needs to be added to that explanation is how insanely detailed and verbose the music sections are. This was Easton Ellis’s real stroke of genius—he pushed this idea, like Bateman’s concern with fashion labels and fancy dining, to a comical extreme. This is what makes the book such a uniquely interesting (enjoyable wouldn’t be the right word) version of the “Diary of a Madman” genre and not just the dull equation of consumerism with psychosis. And now I’m remembering how hilariously composed and loquacious Bateman’s list of “Issues facing the world” is in the first chapter 😆. Everything Bateman does is hilariously over-verbose. Easton Ellis really found a unique artistic approach in this book.

I worked in a bookstore for many years and Patterson was universally disliked for his obvious motivation of selling as many books as possible. Any creative process for him stopped being a factor many years ago. He is a master of easily digested 2-3 page chapters obviously geared towards giving non readers a sense of accomplishment.

Truly I am a part of all that has touched me.

I almost lost it when her mother floored the car when they were hauling the piano to the second floor because "you told me to drive slow, and you always yell at me when I do 20mph on the highway!". How clueless can you get?

…Patrick, is that you?

What a great idea!

It really depends on your taste in literature. I personally enjoyed it but it certainly didn’t strike me as some kind of masterpiece, the praise for it is a bit overblown. If it wasn’t for the movie, I’m not even sure I would remember it today.

What was ironic was my abusive mother actually made me read this book when I was in middle school (I had dyslexia and had to take special reading classes, so she forced me to read this so I’d start reading more mature material than the “childish” easy books I was reading) I grew to love it because of how emotionally connected I was able to relate to the author. And I always loved it because I felt that the book was able to capture writing emotions in a complex way that I personally appreciate, because your able to get lost in that push and pull of how many things are being felt in a particular moment, making it so easy to get lost in the experience of almost being there yourself. this book has actually always inspired me to write an autobiography in the future similar to this of my own experiences, since I originally wanted to be an author when I was younger. So to say I’m bias on the book being good is an understatement. Though I’ll admit I had to buy the book again recent bc it has been so long since I read it so I am basing this on what I felt when I was much younger and how I’ve continued to feel about it

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