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I'm 72% of the way through it, according to Kindle and yes, I agree with you. A tale of a downward spiral can only be interesting for so long.
Dickens was paid by the word and he had this habit of a sort of cliff hanger at the end of each chapter because they were serialized, but that is not the reason The Goldfinch reminds us of Dickens. Dickens had a lot of novels that start when a child is young but able to think and experience, and follows that child into adulthood while meeting off beat, or off-putting characters along the way, characters we find riveting. The same thing happens in Donna Tartt's books.
I'm right about at the 500 page mark of this book. At about 375 I started asking when does this thing get started and when will it end. I'm going to finish it because it's not so bad of a story but the Las Vegas part could have been way shorter and just find this picture already. BTW Dickens is on my to do list.
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I'm 72% of the way through it, according to Kindle and yes, I agree with you. A tale of a downward spiral can only be interesting for so long.
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Dickens was paid by the word and he had this habit of a sort of cliff hanger at the end of each chapter because they were serialized, but that is not the reason The Goldfinch reminds us of Dickens. Dickens had a lot of novels that start when a child is young but able to think and experience, and follows that child into adulthood while meeting off beat, or off-putting characters along the way, characters we find riveting. The same thing happens in Donna Tartt's books.
I'm right about at the 500 page mark of this book. At about 375 I started asking when does this thing get started and when will it end. I'm going to finish it because it's not so bad of a story but the Las Vegas part could have been way shorter and just find this picture already. BTW Dickens is on my to do list.
