Cole Poling’s Reviews > A Little Life > Status Update

sigh. i wish i could go through this book faster but i swear if i hear one more thing about gay sex (like it has been for the last hundred fifty pages) i will literally throw this book out of my window and toss a match onto it.

i get it. you hate sex jude. please stop talking about it.

oh heck no, i draw the line at child prostitution. i heard this book was unbearable, but i didn’t know it was UNBEARABLE.

for starters:
rape
child prostitution
gangbanging
secret blowjobs
abuse
childhood trauma
self-harm
suicide attempts
death

is it bad that i actually just started ballistic crying in the middle of this? what is this book?!? how can it do that, it’s not even the ending!

i don’t think my hearts ever melted more

“i loved you… (guys)… i loved you so SO much.” -stephen king (IT)

how the heck can a book be this good only 150 pages in (i’ve already gotten teary twice)

supposedly the most tragic and saddest novel ever written, i didn’t believe it until i got to JUST page sixty and felt my heart being wrenched