Loved itThis is my favorite book. So, I'm telling you that this is one of my favorite books ever. I love Sally Rooney.
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Normal People (2018)
Others: Mostly positive At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
- ISBN:
- 9781984822185
- Length:
- 273 pages
Genres: romance, literary fiction
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Loved it
Not a fanThe bad parts of it though, I just found it to be incredibly uninteresting. Like I found myself bored with this book. I can appreciate and understand why people are drawn to Normal People. It's just not a book for me.
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Loved itI love it so much. Connell and Marianne are two of the best characters ever.
Review 1 of 4
Loved itI would die for Connell and marann I love them as if they are members of my own family
Loved itI feel like that to me personally in my subjective taste that is a sign that Tik Tok knows how to talk about good books. I wouldn't say that I love this book as much as I love these three oh yeah because I actually love beautiful world where are you more
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Not a fanI wasn't the biggest fan of normal people
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Loved iti haven't stopped thinking about these characters like ever whenever i'm listening to music like any song i am always just thinking of marianne and connell like i'm literally envisioning them every time through every lyric
Loved itnormal people adored all of them that's not me saying i didn't like normal people but sally rooney is just an amazing writer
Loved iti am a huge normal people fan i love sally rooney's writing
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Loved itit is one of the best books it's one of my favorite books sally rooney is now one of my favorite writers
Loved itnormal people get there without question like it they're just yeah it 100% makes it
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Loved itI just want people to be prepared that it's about a relationship and...that's what it's about it's not the plot that people are loving I think it's the writing but it's it's still up there it's still one of my favorite books of last year.
Loved itI think I love this and so many love this because it's so real like the descriptions and the things that happen to these characters feel so real