First off I have to say that reading a book that consisted primarily of a bunch of rich kids (almost all characters, not the main one) not wanting to own up to something terrible they did because who would that benefit was mind boggling to me. I just read most of the book feeling pretty much appalle...
This was not my cup of tea at all. Rather than a genuine tea brand it was a mix of several flavours (the pungent King flavour, the indulgent Fitzgerlad flavour, the blunt Franzen flavour, the rancid Rand flavour) and still it felt pretty tasteless. I am putting the cup down half empty, can’t stand t...
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. The Secret History tells the story of Richard Papen, a poor boy from California, who starts his studies at an east coast college. Richard is particularly int...
Five college students commit murder. They mercilessly kill one of their supposedly best friends. Someone that they used to trust, laugh with, share secrets with, and treat as their own family. But all of that changed over the semester. These seemingly ordinary students privately study the Classics w...
ETA: This book is really... orientalist... not exactly the word that conveys my feelings about it, but probably the closest. Like, the things range from outright racist (Chinaman) to more microaggressive things (oriental language) to outdated shit that has no business in a book published in the 90s ...
4* for writing, 5* for story 2* for taking so blinking long to get anywhere. But not quite as badly as Ive found with her others. Beautifully written, too long winded, but ultimately very satisfying. A fuller review will follow :)
Donna Tartt's novel, The Secret History, is the story of an academically elite group of college students, who all exhibit varying degrees of sociopathic behavior and find common bond in the murder of a friend. We are told about that murder, victim and perpetrators, in the first sentences of the prol...
When Richard Papen joins an exclusive group of Classics students, he has no idea of the secret world of drugs, alcohol, and violence he's about to be thrust into. When one of the students winds up dead, can the rest cope or destroy themselves?Yeah, it sounds like the crime books I usually read but i...
The first two-thirds of The Secret History are suspenseful, mysterious, and intriguing, then it drops off. The final third drags and follows a pattern of 1) a conversation that reveals some lurid secret, 2) binge-drinking/drug use, 3) repeat to end. This could be interesting if the characters really...
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