Shortly after starting this book I Wikipedia'd Donna Tartt, to see if I was dealing with some sort of reverse George Eliot. I had been under the impression that only men got this smugly pretentious. But no, she's a real woman! Ask Bret Easton Ellis, whom she was banging at U. Miss while in a grad wr...
I tagged this as mystery cuz there's a murder but it's not really a mystery. Well, it's about the mystery of identity formation, I guess. And the lengths to which people will go without examining what exactly they're doing and for what reasons.The sense of place is delicious. I found myself both emp...
I read the first half of this book pretty quickly, but the second half took me a lot longer. Probably because there's not a lot of story after Book I. It's still interesting enough that I finished the book, but I found the end rather unsatisfying.
Secret history me es fundamentalmente antipático; y no es porque no pueda superar que sus personajes sean crápulas porque soy perfectamente capaz de apreciar el concepto de anti héroe, gracias, sino porque aparte de crápulas fracasan en demostrarme que sean interesantes, salvo a lo que el gatillo fl...
I bought this book about 2 years ago at a bookstore in Greenwood, MS when I saw that there were newly autographed copies (Tartt is a Mississippi native like myself). It had been sitting on my shelf up until last week. I hate that I waited so long to crack this one open. From the first page you have ...
This was really quite excellent. The character portrait this novel paints of Bunny (this mystery's murder victim) is particularly extraordinary. His behavior and mannerisms are so real that I kept trying to figure out exactly who it is that I know that the author was describing. This book won't be f...
I can't argue with the quality of the writing and the sinister undercurrents of the story, but I found the characters too unlikeable to really care whether or not they offed each other. I much prefer The Little Friend, but I appear to be in the minority.
This is probably one of those have-to-be-there books. It's, err, it's a young book, best read when you're full of hope and arrogance and insecurity. Basically when you're about 15.Carraway-esque narrator at some kind liberal American arts college (I do not know how education works over there, okay?)...
I have to agree with Kim's review - this felt like a story about a group of elitist college students consumed with a desire for knowledge so they can think even more highly of themselves. I can see how some would enjoy the rainy-day-in-an-old-library feel to the book (the one reason I finished it), ...
Full of varied and intresting characters, This book is a mesmerising read.You would not be able to put it down and when you do it will, it will still tingle you for days.
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