![]() ![]() The things that happen to him are so, so bad but also ridiculously implausible, and Im not sure why the author felt the need to inflict so much pain and suffering on one person. After many e-mails, several Slack conversations, and one sorely under-utilized poll on Twitter, here's who we've picked. The book is described as being about 4 friends from college, but this book is really about Jude and his awful life. (And we're not alone: A Little Life got rave reviews, a spot on the shortlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, and-perhaps the only endorsement that actually matters-a rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars on Amazon.) So when the news broke this week that producer Scott Rudin and director Joe Mantello had purchased the rights to turn this book into a miniseries, we immediately began imagining what its adaptation will look like, and which actors will bring the story to life. The GQ staffers who've read it all bunk in that first camp its pages have made the grown men and women in this office burst into tears, reconsider our relationships, and call our dads just to say that we love and appreciate them. ![]() ![]() If you're one of the many people who read A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara's critically acclaimed second book, then you probably fall into one of two camps: You either devoured all 720 of its pages as quickly as humanly possible, even though some of them were hard to read, or you hated it, whether due to its length or its difficult subject matter, and dismissed it as an overpraised and unrealistic portrayal of both abuse and male camaraderie. ![]()
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