Rick MacDonnell | 13 Thoughts on To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara @RickMacDonnell | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
With its disparate critical reactions, rabid fanbase, and culture impact, fans of A Little Life have been clamouring for a follow-up for seven years. In 2022, we got it with To Paradise. I was profoundly impacted by A Little Life. How would I feel about this next one?

In lieu of a straight review of To Paradise by Yanagihara, here are my 13 thoughts:

0:00 - Intro
0:30 - The "What If" Nature of the Story
5:20 - The Fatalism of To Paradise
6:53 - The Alternate History of Book 1
8:43 - All Three Stories Feel Unfinished
9:51 - I Was Ready When It Was Over
10:40 - The Distraction of the Naming Repetition
12:39 - Why Book 3 Might Have Been My Favourite
14:04 - What I Think The Book is Saying
14:30 - Comparing It to A Little Life
16:52 - How the Two Books Are Similar
18:13 - Yanigahara is Hard to Recommend
19:09 - How to Approach Reading To Paradise
19:46 - Don't Expect This to be A Little Life

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