Doubtful on the books called ˝Best Sellers˝

Normal People (Paperback) - 『노멀 피플』 원서
샐리 루니 / Faber & Faber / 2019년 5월

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I don't get this honestly...I don't even get how this could be the best seller. Well it is plausible and interesting but "Best seller"? I don't know.

Well, it made me want to have a boyfriend tho. I'm quite sure on one thing that the guy like Connell is never exist in Korea. He is very good looking, quite into reading, which made him thoughtful and considerate, and he is even committed to Marianne. It is Impossible.

Well.. actually I do not have much to say because there's not much to say on this book. I heard that there are TV series based on the book and guess that one would probably be much better. 

I liked the ending tho. The book does not describe the whole life of Marianne nor Connell but it just shows a certain period of time of their lives. This is why its last page does not seem like a typical ending. It makes me wonder, whether we can be redeemed only by opposite sex. Can my friend redeem me and I redeem her? If there's no such thing like sexual love, can we still redeem one another?

Though the book was not beyond my expectation, I would like to leave some quotes from the book.

-Everyone knows that Rachel is the most popular girl in school, but no one is allowed to say this. Instead everyone has to pretend not to notice that their social lives are arranged hierarchically, with certain people at the top, some jostling at mid-level, and others lower down.

-It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about. Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marked as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing. Presumably this was how the industry made money. Literature in the way it appeared at these public readings, had no potential as a form of resistance to anything.