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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
I did not enjoy Normal People. It did not live up to my expectations given the critical acclaim that it has received. It was like a young adult coming-of-age university novel, infused with class issues, and told in the manner of brunt realism typical of Irish literature. I think I would have preferred more sentimentality in this "is but isn't" a love story. I had trouble engaging with the characters emotionally.
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Thanks for saving me a credit! I had borrowed the ebook from my library, but I have an aversion to books in which dialogue is not indicated by quotation marks (or at least an em-dash in front) so I returned it after only reading a few pages. I toyed with getting the audiobook because I figured then I wouldn't be put off by the lack of punctuation, but I was still on the fence. Your review helped me decide to go in a different direction.