Whenever a title or author I'm not familiar with is mentioned, I've taken to googling to confirm whether it is real or only exists in the Guppyverse. Despite finding what should be clear evidence of A Little Life and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow online, I am still not convinced. These books are not real and did not sell millions of copies and I will not be swayed on this.
“If you look at a best-seller list, you’ll find an incredible number of books that wouldn’t exist if they didn’t start from a point outside of the world of books. These are books that have had films based on them, novels written by television personalities, stories set down on paper by people famous for one thing or another; they tell stories already told somewhere else, or explain things that have already happened at another time or in another form. Naturally, this phenomenon irritates us and gives us the widespread feeling that the garbage is taking over. But it’s also true that in it we hear the rustling, in its most vulgar form, of a principle that is not at all vulgar: the idea that a book’s value lies in its offering itself as a small piece of a much broader mosaic — as a link in a chain that started somewhere else and will probably finish somewhere else. Here’s a hypothesis that may teach us something: the barbarians use the book to complete sequences of meaning that were generated elsewhere.” - Alessandro Baricco, The Barbarians: An Essay on the Mutilation of Culture.
Whenever a title or author I'm not familiar with is mentioned, I've taken to googling to confirm whether it is real or only exists in the Guppyverse. Despite finding what should be clear evidence of A Little Life and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow online, I am still not convinced. These books are not real and did not sell millions of copies and I will not be swayed on this.
“If you look at a best-seller list, you’ll find an incredible number of books that wouldn’t exist if they didn’t start from a point outside of the world of books. These are books that have had films based on them, novels written by television personalities, stories set down on paper by people famous for one thing or another; they tell stories already told somewhere else, or explain things that have already happened at another time or in another form. Naturally, this phenomenon irritates us and gives us the widespread feeling that the garbage is taking over. But it’s also true that in it we hear the rustling, in its most vulgar form, of a principle that is not at all vulgar: the idea that a book’s value lies in its offering itself as a small piece of a much broader mosaic — as a link in a chain that started somewhere else and will probably finish somewhere else. Here’s a hypothesis that may teach us something: the barbarians use the book to complete sequences of meaning that were generated elsewhere.” - Alessandro Baricco, The Barbarians: An Essay on the Mutilation of Culture.
Is this the newest get rich quick scheme
this was very amusing
A Little Life is also a Shakespeare reference
Correct, though I think Yanagihara has the good taste to avoid referencing The Tempest in the novel.
The one example to date of Hanya Yanigahara having good taste