Normal People

I don't understand why is this so popular. The main characters are super unlikable and flat, side characters just blend into each other as none of them have a personality (except for Lorraine, I actually liked her). I understand the stylistic and perhaps somehow symbolic choice of not using quotation marks but it makes the book just hard to read and it wasn't good enough for that to be justifiable in my opinion. If it was supposed to be about relationship between the two heroes and how they get together and then leave and then get together again - I simply couldn't care less about them or their relationship. Plus the long bland descriptions of the most mundane actions... Boring and not worth your time