PositiveThe Irish TimesThis may be an obvious criticism to level against a 700-page book, but it is too long. Yanagihara\'s descriptions are never gratuitous, but as the multitude of metaphors for Jude\'s suffering stacked up I grew desensitized ... At times its unabashed sentimentality put me in mind of the least appealing aspects of American cinema, yet it isn\'t fair to dwell on the faults in what is, primarily, an extraordinary work of fiction by a writer of tremendous insight. A Little Life , although occasionally overemotional and exhausting, is always fascinating ... Strangely timely in its timelessness, this is a novel essentially about the resonance of a single \'little life\' and the mark it leaves behind on so many \'little\' others.