This book was very uneven for me. It took me a couple hundred pages to get into it. I really liked once it hit Vegas through to his adult life. I found it really engaging and I wanted Theo to be able to move beyond his tragic past to a happy future. But the last 50-100 pages or so, again, my interes...
I read this via ebook from my library. Usually, what I do is read a book and then skim through all the Goodread reviews and feedback but for some reason I broke my own rule this time. And after seeing such hit and miss marks I was a bit dismayed. Should I even continue on? It was a hard pick-up, the...
This was all set to get five stars from till the last half. Which drug on forever. I still really liked it. I just wish that Theo hadn't went all Holden Caulfield in the end. Great beginning could have used a quicker ending with a dash less moping.
…because if so, it casts quite a shadow on what a best seller is:-( The “story” is not bad, but the execution is… well, does not make it a best seller in my eyes. It is way too long, confusing, “baroque”, ie, going in all kinds of irrelevant directions without too much interest. I must admit that,...
The Goldfinch was my first novel by Donna Tartt. After having read so many positive reviews my expecations were very high. After having finished the book I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed and don't really know how to rate this book. I don't think I have to say much about the plot as that has...
Wow. Well, what can I say but man this book was all kinds of crazy for me. Long stretches of introspection courtesy of protagonist Theo, who begins the story at 12-13 and the victim of a terrorist bombing that claims his mothers. In the ruckus he makes off with an old man's ring and a priceless pain...
2 thumbs up! The attention to detail is amazing. I especially loved the parts set in Amsterdam. I am looking forward to visiting the Mauritshuis when it reopens to the public and seeing Het puttertje for real.
"And isn't the whole point of things — beautiful things — that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?" Donna Tartt can certainly write gorgeously, and that...
Alternately riveting and slow. The author makes everything from the horror of a bombing to the beauty of old masters’ art come alive with vivid description. I suspect she intentionally wrote the way the Dutch Masters painted, describing everything in exquisite detail, whether the scene involves anti...
“And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from th...
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