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“The Secret History succeeds magnificently. . . . A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment. . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” --The New York Times“An accomplished psychological thriller. . . . Absolutely chilling. . . . Tartt has a stunning command of the lyrical.” --The Village Voice“Beautifully written, suspenseful from start to finish.” --Vogue“A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction. . . . Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth.” --The Times (London)“Her writing bewitches us. . . . The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin.” --The Philadephia Inquirer“Enthralling. . . . A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously wll-paced entertainment. . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” --The New York Times Book Review“A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read, pleasurably devoured. . . . .Gorgeously written, relentlessly erudite.” –Vanity Fair
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Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement--both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
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Product details
Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf (September 11, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400031702
ISBN-13: 978-1400031702
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.9 x 7.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
2,371 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#5,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
The best 19th century novels encompassed the mess of the universe - think Anna Karenina’s chapters on harvesting wheat and Moby Dick’s encyclopedic details of whale physiology. The 20th century specialized in taut plots where nothing is wasted - Gatsby, Old Man and the Sea, the classic crime novels. Tartt falls in the middle. Is their a tight through line about the murder and its aftermath and the intricacies of young relationships? Yup. Are there digressions into the nuances of ancient Greek and the details of small town Vermont society? Yup. Is the book stronger for this? I certainly think so.I was constantly surprised as I read, never knowing who to trust or what was really happening behind the often unreliable narrative. This is a fascinating melange of genres, of showing and telling. Like The Goldfinch, I expect to reread this at some point. Strongly recommended if you like literature to challenge you while always being accessible.My only complaint is with the Kindle edition, which includes several random sections repeated after the end. I read them for a while, thinking maybe it would prove another challenge, showing an alternative parallel universe where things went differently. In the end, it was clear this was an editor’s error and I stopped with maybe 100 pages to go. I hope I didn’t miss anything, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t.
I will start by saying I loved The Goldfinch. Loved it. So, it was interesting to see how Tartt's brilliant writing was shaped and honed during the intervening years. But that writing could not redeem such tedious and pretentious characters. None of them were genuinely interesting, or remotely believable. I went to college during the years this seems to have been set, and almost none of it rang true. NO ONE wore fancy suits around campus, even for dramatic effect or as a pretentious affectation. And I went to a massive and diverse university. The characters run around in a drug and alcohol-soaked haze. Okay, that much rang true for the late 80s/early 90s, but they were way too functional for spending so much of their time so heavily inebriated. Richard says Bunny was well liked, but he was a ridiculous caricature, and his behavior was relentlessly boorish. How charming! I dunno... I just found it impossible to suspend my disbelief, because there was no payoff for doing so. And instead of being able to relax and enjoy Tartt's fantastic gift for writing, I was constantly brought out of the story with thoughts of "this doesn't sound like something that could have happened!" or "I hate these people and don't care WTF happens to any of them!" I'd say skip this one. Just read The Goldfinch. It's worth it.
Donna Tartt has quickly become one of my all time favorite authors. I first read The Goldfinch about a year ago, and absolutely loved it. I just got done with The Secret History and was even more impressed by this book. I am not a scholar, and I did not understand the occasional piece of dialogue written in Greek or Latin, however, that does not distract from the story in any way. Some of it you could figure out based on the context. Tartt has an amazing ability to develop her characters into such complex and interesting people and by the end of the book you feel that you know them on a personal level.The storyline is intriguing and suspenseful. Her writing offers the perfect amount of description without making the pace of the book seem slow. This book was very hard to put down once I started it, as was the case with her first book I read. Her writing style is different, in such a wonderful way, from the popular authors of today. I cannot wait to devour the next book of hers, which sadly, is the last of the 3 novels she has written. She seems to space out her books about every 10 years (Goldfinch was published in 2013) so, sadly, it looks like we may be waiting a while until her next book...
This won't be one of my typical 3-star reviews. To start, the writing is gorgeous and so dreamy. None of the scenes seem fully grounded, kind of as if Tartt is guiding the reader through the confusing haze Richard remembers of his college years. A California boy with dreams of studying ancient Greek, Richard goes to Hampden College in New England and it's all Greek to him until his entire friend group slowly starts unraveling.I love that the book opens with a murder because Richard starts off as a bit of a Holden Caulfield and the first half of the book just drags. None of the characters were remotely likable and, in the strangest way, I feel like I had met them all in college. They were pretentious and hyper-intellectual, but overall disasters. The poor pacing gives this first half 2 stars out of five.Then the second half starts and my enjoyment sky-rocketed. The characters don't get any more likable, but at least they get interesting. The entire fabric of Richard's reality starts falling apart. Secrets pop up and each influence in his life develops several extra dimensions. I particularly am fascinated by the charismatic Henry and the cowardly Francis. They were so fleshed out, even though Henry only allowed small glimpses of their true personalities.One of my biggest complaints was the sense of pacing. Sequences that lasted weeks, took a matter of paragraphs while entire hours lasted for pages. I kind of got the effect of adding tension in that way, but it wasn't for me.Ultimately, some really devious characters and interesting exploration on the effect trauma has on people's perception. I'm not sure this book was for me, but I am glad I read it.
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