Review by SUGAR
May 17, 2024This is a must-read book for everyone. OMG, it's so, so good.
It's a thought-provoking novel with beautiful writing that will keep you hooked. It covers friendship, love, politics, and religion—important parts of our society. The best part is that the characters dive into deep discussions on these topics through emails between Eileen and Alice, raising many questions for the reader.
The book also offers the writer's perspective on different aspects of society. What I find most intriguing is that Sally Rooney presents the views of both Eileen and Alice without any bias. She doesn't push her own thoughts through either of them.
The story is about four characters: EILEEN, ALICE, FELIX, and SIMON. Each character feels real, and their struggles with internal chaos while managing their lives are very relatable. We all have moments when nothing makes sense and the world feels awful, but we keep going even when we don't want to.
The book feels like an essay on modern society, showing how people have more luxuries compared to the past, but are also more lost in trying to balance their lives than ever before.
It also deals with family dynamics, seen through Eileen's perspective and her interactions with her family. Often, we dislike our families, but sometimes we admire them from afar, grateful to have them.
The biggest question humans have faced since gaining consciousness is: What is the meaning of life? When I try to answer this, I often get more confused. The boon of consciousness starts feeling like a curse. By the end of the book, I realized that some questions are meant to have no answers. They remain unanswered so we keep searching for logic behind that particular thing —the QUEST FOR LOGIC BEHIND EVERYTHING—which transformed mere animals into HUMANS.
This is a must-read book for everyone. OMG, it's so, so good.
It's a thought-provoking novel with beautiful writing that will keep you hooked. It covers friendship, love, politics, and religion—important parts of our society. The best part is that the characters dive into deep discussions on these topics through emails between Eileen and Alice, raising many questions for the reader.
The book also offers the writer's perspective on different aspects of society. What I find most intriguing is that Sally Rooney presents the views of both Eileen and Alice without any bias. She doesn't push her own thoughts through either of them.
The story is about four characters: EILEEN, ALICE, FELIX, and SIMON. Each character feels real, and their struggles with internal chaos while managing their lives are very relatable. We all have moments when nothing makes sense and the world feels awful, but we keep going even when we don't want to.
The book feels like an essay on modern society, showing how people have more luxuries compared to the past, but are also more lost in trying to balance their lives than ever before.
It also deals with family dynamics, seen through Eileen's perspective and her interactions with her family. Often, we dislike our families, but sometimes we admire them from afar, grateful to have them.
The biggest question humans have faced since gaining consciousness is: What is the meaning of life? When I try to answer this, I often get more confused. The boon of consciousness starts feeling like a curse. By the end of the book, I realized that some questions are meant to have no answers. They remain unanswered so we keep searching for logic behind that particular thing —the QUEST FOR LOGIC BEHIND EVERYTHING—which transformed mere animals into HUMANS.
