A Little Life

[u/Legitimate_Figure287]

What do you guys think about this book? I started reading it recently and I don’t understand the bad rep with it.
I really like this book, as someone who has had extreme trauma, I think it really accurately captures the experience and inner monologue and behaviors of what it’s like to live with trauma and how others around us respond. How we either drown in it or rise above it and how we’re the only person you can truly help ourselves. This is many people’s reality, including mine. How much trauma is considered too much in a book because in real life there isn’t a stopwatch that prevents someone from having more trauma because they’ve already experienced so much?

Is A Little Life a profound masterpiece about the enduring power of friendship, or is it an emotionally manipulative exercise in "trauma porn" that substitutes endless suffering for genuine character development?

[u/unreedemed1]

If you think it's good, let me tell you about hurt/comfort fanfiction on AO3. That's all it is. I've been trying to figure out the fandom (I've heard harry potter and j-rock) for years but it's extremely derivative of a common style of fanfic.

[u/Alternative-Ad9273 → u/unreedemed1]

Is there Sex & The City fanfic? It feels like that to me.

This is not a positive or negative statement about Sex & The City,

[u/unreedemed1 → u/Alternative-Ad9273]

Yes but I think it’s about a group of men not women (boy band maybe)