My sister recommended me this book. Is it actually worth reading or is it some dumb YA/chick lit novel? It seems to be popular on TikTok, which doesn't make a good impression.
My sister recommended me this book. Is it actually worth reading or is it some dumb YA/chick lit novel?
imagine menwritingwomen but role reversed
literally just irredeemable garbage, dont waste your time
>My sister
That should tell you all you need to know about this book. Never trust recommendations from women.
hey that's not fair, there are IQfy women but rare
It was a woman who got me to read Master and the Margarita for instance, back in the day
am woman, hate it
A step above YA/chicklit but that's not saying much.
that's it, that's why it gets critical praise from the general public
There are literally dozens of shitposts a day in IQfy with more literary merit than Sally Rooney's collected works.
How many who have criticized Rooney have a read a single book of hers? Pure pseud behavior critiquing something you’ve never read
You don't have to eat 100% of a cooked meal to determine that it's bad
Similarly, you don't have to read the whole book to decide that it's a piece of flaming trash
Get some taste
If you’ve read a sizable chunk of one of her books, good for you. I am specifically those giving opinions on books they’ve never read. I’ve never read Rooney. Never plan to. Just hate pseud behavior
it's IQfy brah
we only criticize books we've never read
I've read the other 2 books she's written that aren't OP. Conversations with Friends was decent but Beautiful World Where Are You was absolutely terrible. I've defended her based on CWF but later found out all of the scorn and ridicule IQfy directs her way is deserved because of BWWAY. I won't shit on Normal People because I haven't read it but I'd guess it's closer to the latter than it is the former.
You're projectile vomiting your anxieties about chudism ITT and assuming everyone is a pseud and calling us pseuds. Just a heads up, you're sounding like a troony...big time.
I have insulted Sally Rooney's writing and appearance over one hundred times on IQfy and I have never read any of her books.
My sister also recommended it to me. It was garbage, and I gave it a fair chance. It deserves to be a Hulu mini-series.
self-insert nonsense from a writer who regrets their college experience and has an obsession with name-dropping and long-winded and incorrect references and discussions on philosophy. The characters aren't even Irish in personality or character.
>Is it actually worth reading or is it some dumb YA/chick lit novel?
It is actually both. I'd recommend reading it so you get a grasp in what is actually being passed on as "literary fiction" nowadays. The writing is pretty barebones and minimal and I suppose her "innovative style" comes from the fact that she does not separate her dialogue from her narration. The book is also quite bad due to its first section in a high school setting, where you feel like you are reading bad fan fiction with a painfully obvious self-insert female character. Once you move past that, it doest get a little bit better, but not by much.
The main issue of the book is all the times it tries to be something that it clearly not fit for it. If Rooney had just written a sappy love story between a popular jock who is also into poetry and the weird, artsy chick and their on/off thing, it would suffice. The most terrible thing is how the author is convinced in her role to say something – enter terrible Marxism critique and gender politics from someone who barely skimmed through Butler's wikipedia page.
Since it's so short, I'd still read so at least you can form an opinion and be "in" a trendy author.
Also, don't bother with the other two books by her: they are drastically worse and painfully transparent to the point the characters are barely characters and just extensions of the author.
It is incredibly boring.
I'm not reading some homosexual troony talking about some mick slag
one of the rare cases where show adaptation is better
whats a good book on dealing with old people, parents are getting old and they are stubborn as frick, it's tiresome.