No way.

So glad to hear that -- I thought I was the only one who found it wildly overrated. (And these reviews are giving me a bit of delicious schadenfreude.)

I sorta liked it, but it made me want to scream. The chapters covered different points in time, and I had to work very hard to figure out what year we were in. If the author had simply put the year in the title of the chapter, would that have automatically excluded it from being “great art?” This what I find so…

I was sent The Little Friend as an advanced reader copy, and after I read the last page I literally turned the book over and over, thinking there had to be more somewhere. I stood up and looked around in case the real ending had become loose and fallen to the floor, but HAHA JOKE WAS ON ME.

I read the Pulitzer fiction winner every year. Some years the books are so breathtakingly gorgeous they become staples of my re-read list (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, last year’s winner Less) and sometimes I fucking hate them (hello A Visit From the Goon Squad). The Goldfinch is a rare bird that I hated so…

Oh I LOATHED Visit from Goon Squad but was too ashamed to admit it considering won EVER prize ever...

I read the Pulitzer winner every yea -sometimes I love them, sometimes I hate them. this book was so bad I couldn’t even finish it. I kept forgetting what had happened and had to backtrack every time I opened it. finally took it to a used bookstore bc I didn’t want it in my collection even for “cred.”

ps: I also…

Also keep in mind that Orlando is about an hour away from the ocean...

you should be out of the grays on the basis of your username alone.

You lost me at “Ansel Elgort”.

The idea of the BBC finding something “too emotionally muted” made me giggle. 

My entire book club hated this book. It was one of the most pretentious things I’ve ever read. The trailer for this looked so incredible boring I’m not surprised by the reviews at all. I thought maybe the movie would help me understand why this book was such a big deal, but I guess not.

yes powerful

I watched that terrifying video of him drunkenly pouring wine, yelling, slamming cupboard doors and that was plenty. And what was even more heart-breaking was that the video engendered replies like “my dad was worse” or “you call that abuse?” from commenters who must have experienced true horrors (bad enough) but that…

bippity-boppity-douche, your wish has been granted!

...i mean, you SEEN depp lately?!

Ugh some of these comments... smh. Johnny Depp will be just fine.... he needs to move the fuck on, it’s like he still needs to have control over her and he’s doing it through lawsuits. 

Also didn’t Sid basically murder Nancy but that was kinda romanticised away as a folie à deux, so it’s not even really that much of a hot take/witty quip anyway?

Sid killed Nancy, though.

I’m not sure that’s fair. I’ve yet to hear anything that puts Amber Heard on the level of abuse that equals or even is a small percentage of what is alleged by her against Depp.

There was some speculation in Dirt Bag that her fiancee, a convicted rapist and murderer, is starting in on the “control” aspect of an abusive relationship. I don’t know if it’s true, but I imagine it certainly could be true.