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+title: Less
+date: '2019-06-21T22:25:39Z'
+categories: book
+tags:
+- book
+- fiction
+- great
+pagecount: 273
+---
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+Halfway through reading [*Less*][book-amaz] I came to the conclusion that I don't think I have read
+a novel before with a gay protagonist. I guess that says something about me, but although I might
+have before, I have certainly never read something where the sexuality of the main character is
+discussed so frequently and drives the plot and yet is not important.
+
+I mean that the ideas of growing older and the changing nature of who we are, who we love, and how
+the world sees us is a transcendent phenomenon. Nevertheless, this is a comedy that is clever if not
+always laugh out loud funny. The fictional writer-cum-protagonist has his work described as
+magniloquent which describes this book very well (after I looked up what it meant). I understand why
+it won the Pulitzer Prize as the writing was some of the more enjoyable I have experienced in a
+while, not withstanding the amount of words I had to look up to make it through.
+
+I highly recommend this book. It is short but not a short read as the chapters are awfully long
+which are difficult for me to fight through.
+
+[book-amaz]:      https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSICPW3