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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29044.The_Secret_History?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Secret History" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167959950m/29044.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29044.The_Secret_History?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Secret History</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8719.Donna_Tartt">Donna Tartt</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9821193?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 3 of 5 stars I don't know about this book... 
 At first I was drawn into it and I didn't know why. Since I pretty much don't really care for people who are "intellectuals" or jerks (especially ones who feel the need to do something or act a certain way to feel good about what they're doing in life) the main character really wasn't appealing. I think it was the mystery of the death that sucked me in. I had all kinds of ideas about why it happened (most of them revolving around Julian) and when it was finally kind of explained, that's when I really started to notice the way this book was written. 
 
 It's a first person narrator. I hadn't noticed that. It suddenly hit me that it wasn't a third person limited. Although, when I thought about it, it really felt like limited because you have no idea what's happening since he's such an outsider. Then I started to get mad when he started to remember all of this stuff that was pretty integral to the plot- after the fact. The whole time he was relating all of these completely useless details he could've been talking about what was really going on. I mean, this book just pissed me off at that point. 
 
 Still, since it had sucked me in, I was in it no matter what and I'm really glad I finished this book because it ended up being alright... I just think that the author really liked to hold it over your head that "ha ha I know something you don't know" and sometimes that's okay but usually it just makes me want to punch someone. 
 
 Yeah, I don't know, I guess it's good because I want to talk about it but mostly about how it irked me. Is that the sign of a good book? Because I honestly don't remember half the crap that happened in it.
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Lindsey's review
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bookshelves: 08-only-not
recommended for: punkass intellectuals, people who feel obligated in life
status: Read in February, 2008

I don't know about this book...
At first I was drawn into it and I didn't know why. Since I pretty much don't really care for people who are "intellectuals" or jerks (especially ones who feel the need to do something or act a certain way to feel good about what they're doing in life) the main character really wasn't appealing. I think it was the mystery of the death that sucked me in. I had all kinds of ideas about why it happened (most of them revolving around Julian) and when it was finally kind of explained, that's when I really started to notice the way this book was written.

It's a first person narrator. I hadn't noticed that. It suddenly hit me that it wasn't a third person limited. Although, when I thought about it, it really felt like limited because you have no idea what's happening since he's such an outsider. Then I started to get mad when he started to remember all of this stuff that was pretty integral to the plot- after the fact. The whole time he was rela...more

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message 1: by La Petite

09/09/2008 03:07PM

"The whole time he was relating all of these completely useless details he could've been talking about what was really going on. I mean, this book just pissed me off at that point."

Dude. Couldn't agree more.