I read the other one conversations with friends. Her description of normal people could also apply to that one. I’m still mad about the time I wasted on that piece of garbage 😡
This is the most phenomenal (and accurate) rant of American Psycho I've ever heard. Anytime I ever gave that opinion of it in university I was informed (by some dude, usually) about how I just wasn't intelligent enough to ⭐understand⭐ it so I couldn't truly appreciate it. Especially since I am a woman and couldn't ever know what it's like to be a man in this world. 🤮 It was a phenomenal litmus test for people, though!
i just recently discovered your channel but i think you are totally going to be a new favorite book tuber for me! i so appreciate how you give your opinions honestly because i feel like you’re actually giving me expectations to go off of. i don’t mind smut sometimes but the amount of books ive started and not known they were ridiculously smutty is insane!! sometimes i just want to read something with a plot!
I felt like Queenie was another book where the woman was treated like 💩💩 but everyone LOVED it and I was struggling to get through it😫 Like GIRLLL STAND UPP!!
Thanks for putting this together! It’s so interesting booktube/social media because I’ve read books people recommended and hated them so strongly! Hard to sift through the actual gems sometimes.
GURL - You have the best worst books list. 💙 American Psycho is one of those "red flag" books. If you're talking to someone and it comes out that they like this book, back slowly but steadily out of the room.
Girrrrllll thank you so much for that intro!!! Yes for more booktubers who just say they hated that book and dont mask their opinions just for the audience!!! Its ok to disagree, guys, we shouldnt be offended by people ranting about things we like, life will go on haha and i never read american psyco, but the way you described it seems like the type of art that will be defended with “a book is just a book, it shouldnt give the interpretation to the reader” and i hate it, every type of art should be responsable, work their way to say their message responsably. Once again, love your content ❤ we’re gonna have a great 2024!
I knew American Psycho was going to be the worst of the worst for you. Somehow, that makes me more curious to read it this Spooky Season lol. I'm also like you though, I will read the crappiest of the crappy just to finish it. I just can't leave a book I paid for unread.
I just love how comfortable your channel is, like I haven't enjoyed content like this on RU-vid in so many years. Thanks for being open and honest, I definitely trust your opinion so i'll be steering far away from these books.
This video needs to come with a warning…Do not be eating or drinking liquid while watching! Oh my word…I loved every minute of it. And now I need to clean off my iPad screen…🤪😂🤣
Your feelings about American psycho are 100% valid. I feel like with that book tho, the "plot" is being put in the mind of this awful insane person, no holds barred (if he's even a real person, like he's really just empty and kind of a reflection of the insane environment he exists in - society, wall street, america, whatever you wanna call it - which he absolutely loathes but also wants to belong in...like of course he'd be a psycho). Like the repetitiveness, the ocd, the over the top-ness, is supposed to drive all that home. There's no morality to be gained and we kind of know that going in (though I think you'd be hard pressed not to read the book and see it as criticism and disgust at everything being presented) it's just fiction from an extremely unlikely pov that the author really commits to. And the over the topness can be kind of funny if you read it from that perspective (even if it's offensive and violent and disgusting), like for example the movie version really went for the black comedy aspect. This is very long winded and idk what I'm actually trying to say lol, sorry. Please don't feel like I'm "explaining" it to you or sth, like I said not liking the book is 100% valid. Personally I actually really like most of BEE's writing, his latest book The Shards was one of my favorites I read last year. I know he's polarizing tho.
😂 These descriptions were *chef’s kiss* I have American Psycho on my TBR bcs I got it as a blind date with a book & I am kinda looking forward to it more because I want to be able to say I hate it for myself lol. 😅
Thank you for protecting me this year from reading bad books. I was going to read Mile high, but I know what you say is real, so he'll no am I picking up that book.
this comment is beyond felt lol. I think it was just too long, and the self-inflicted pain in multiple aspects was so in your face most of the book (even with the explanation of Jude's background and the heartbreaking things that happened to him) especially with the support and love that was being given to him, it was just like dude...do you want to be better or just give up completely? Everyone was keeping him alive, but we all knew how it was going to end from the start. Don't get me wrong it was sad, but 800 pages...
I feel like normal people is a terrible book but amazing tv show, I love Daisy and Paul so much in this story ✨️ but the book... disappointing, not only for the "narration" choice but because the relationship and the feelings of each character individual as well as together devolped better in the screen (first time I feel the movie/tv show is way better than the book, normally is the other way around), especially Marianne's story with that complex family issues, what a good actors this tv show casted! This is just my opinion, I don't intend to critizise the people who love the book, the author is just not for me, please be kind 🫶🏻
I just found you yesterday because I was searching for booktubers that could get me motivated to read more and I immediately liked your personality and that you're reading/open to reading many different genres :D and then I went back on your channel and saw your video about learning Japanese and Korean and your comment about Jimin made me subscribe immediately 🤣both my loves on one channel combined with your personality? Sign me up
I started normal people two years ago and I haven't picked it up since, I read up to page ten and then went NO WAY. it's just how it's written in general.
Your opinion on by a thread is how I felt about forever never by Lucy score. This is coming off my tbr because I don’t need that in my life. THANK YOU ❤
I listened to most of the audiobook of Normal People in one sitting, and then the last 40% took me days to go through because it felt like a never ending nightmare. I agree with you - I see what Sally Rooney was going for, but it felt like she tried to talk about everything and ended up talking about nothing.
"I was just like, 'dang girl that's crazy'" I laughed so hard because girllll same! Lol Im glad we had the same thoughts for Normal People. P.S. I absolutely LIVEEE for you 💩'n on books. LOL I liveeee for rant Khalilah😂💗 "GIRL WHERE IS YOUR DAD!!"
I think I got a book you'll like more than Exit West same sort of premise but I think it will not you disappoint like Exit West did. It's called the Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. It's about a mother who is trying to keep her family together during a time of tyranny in Ireland where people are getting tossed into unmarked vans like the country itself is falling apart. I'm listening to it now in audio form and I got like 3 hours left and it's like wow. It's pretty good, you should really check it out! It will not disappoint.
I didn't like "Eleanor and Park" either. I don't know how she could date the person that literally stood by and watched her get bullied and I don't know how he could date her when she literally calls him "stupid asian kid" or something to that effect. Plus she totally (I can't think of the word right now), but she sorta gaslight him when he's expressing his struggles on what it's like to be mixed. They just didn't sit right with me. I didn't like them at all.
My only DNF last year wasn’t until December. (I started reading again in August) it’s the book Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey. Like I just couldn’t finish it. It FINALLY got to a smutty part then at the end of the chapter literally nothing happened nothing finished i was like ya know what DNF. Don’t be afraid to DNF something. Dont feel like you have to finish it because you have to.
Well, girl, you didn’t hate any of my favorite books so we can still be friends!❤️ But I wanted to to tell you I made a 2024 vision board because of you and it was so fun. Now I can see 2024 clearly and it looks great!
I love the movie cause Christian Bale does an amazing job in it, but the book not being good is crazy to me you’re like the 10th person Ive heard say this. 18:08
I hate slice of life stories unless it supports a larger story ( like acofas). It’s the reason i couldn’t the movie 8th Grade because it’s just things happening with no reason or purpose to it. I deal with that enough in real life. I don’t read books for reality. I read them to escape. Even realistic fiction needs a purpose
Nothing I love more than a little rant video! I didn't like Normal People either. My biggest ick is having slurs unnecessarily sprinkled in books just to make characters seem more malicious😒. I never had any interest in picking up "American Psycho", but now I never will. And sadly curiosity got the best of me, I already have "The Right Move" on my phone. Maybe I'll like it, if not, then I'll be able to rant with you.😅
I liked normal people, but the writing did catch me off guard at first. I think it’s supposed to be more so of a journal entry kind of. I think the whole point isn’t to romanticize that type of relationship but to show a relationship where two troubled souls attach themselves too even though they know it’s not good for them. I liked how realistic it was honestly like their depressions and anxieties were really realistic and I could relate a lot to it. I also didn’t mind the no plot. It was just a simple read but held a lot of depth in certain parts. It’s more literary fiction than anything.
ZANDER IS BLACK???????? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 LMAOOO not this being my fave book and me not knowing he was black I'm afraid I'm lowering it. I'm so upset he literally didn't feel black at all omgoshhhh
Thank you for saying what needed to be said about Normal People! I've tried to read it 3 times because there is SO MUCH HYPE! DNF every single time. Not worth the brain space.
16:09 I honestly am so disappointed that the book is horrible because I absolutely love the movie and I don’t understand because I’ve heard so many people say that the book sucks but the movie was so good so I’m surprised that usually you know they always say that the book is better than the movie but I guess in this case that’s not the case
I just recently found your channel and looking forward to your videos. One question about your kindle does it link to hotspots? For example a iphone hot spot or business hotspots Can’t find the answer to that question. Thank you so much
normal people is one of my all time favorite books (paul mescal might have something to do with it even tho i read before watching the show) i loved it but i get what you’re saying
Omg same for Normal People. I do not get the hype. At all. Why? Marianne and Connell are not likable at all. Marianne is even worse than Connell because she gave me this “pick me sad rebellious white ultra privileged, out of touch with reality girl” vibe and I could not stand for it. And Connell being ashamed of her in public yet being in love with her and not accepting it?! The self-destruction phase she goes through when in Sweden and the complete lack of reflection on this?? Generally the impossibility for the both of them to communicate properly. A very annoying book, and Sally Rooney’s way of writing dialogues is not cool, or so millenial/gêne whatever, it’s just annoying (give us them hyphens).
I'm not going to lie.. I was cracking up at your review of American Psycho. 😂. There is a movie that clearly was based off of this book and guess what?? The movie was just as bad, so no you're not alone in loathing this story. It's just wrong all the way around.
nothing annoys me more than a really badly researched book! Especially when I think about the fact that as a reader, I may not even be able to tell the difference when it's about people or things I don't know much about. And that goes for languages too... I'm french canadian/bilingual, so whenever I read books in English with terribly translated dialogue, or citations in them, I just can't take the book seriously anymore... Like, you spend months writing this book, but use google translate? And no one in the editing process thought to ask someone who is fluent in this easily accessible language to verify this? That tells me no one in this whole time thought this book or the readers were worth taking seriously
