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Normal People

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Novel positioned as potential great millennial novel but criticized for lacking scope and resonance compared to Gen X novels

Mentions (4)
"I thought she was so cute in Normal People and I didn't even recognize her in recent pics. :-( Justice for noses with bulbous tips in Hollywood!!"
Another victim of the Hollywood rhinoplasty · u/rem-dog · ↑262 · 2023-12-14
"The lineup of normal people/slouching towards bethlehem/just kids/all about love/crying in h mart/my year of rest and relaxation/the bell jar/the secret history on your shelf is nothing like the ones in other girls apartments"
Nooo babe you're nothing like other girls · u/Status_Hand6024 · ↑209 · 2025-01-20
"I guess it would be Normal People but it doesn't have the scope or resonance as what people point to as great Gen X novels from the 1990s. It's kind of sad that more men don't read."
"Never have I read something so overrated beyond belief. From the first four pages you can tell why it's a huge success: it's a pop romance with enough tension to, thankfully, make the pages pass by swiftly and enough pseudo-hipster, lib art hoe takes, to make the reader feel superior to the normies "
Normal People · u/MadDeodorant · ↑92 · 2022-08-15
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