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March book club pick. I put off reading this until the last possible second, and to my surprise, once I picked it up, it was quite engaging. I started off REALLY not liking anyone in the book, and I'm about a third of the way in now, and I STILL don't like anyone, but yet I'm curious to see what happens next. There is a certain distance to the narrative, common in much "modern literature" that I do not care for at all, so that is off-putting. I suppose it is balanced by the fact that it's set in
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erghhh.
I do know not every character needs to be likable, and heaven knows my university days were filled with poor decisions, yet I found this story to be filled with characters I really wanted to shake and tell them to wake up.
I do know not every character needs to be likable, and heaven knows my university days were filled with poor decisions, yet I found this story to be filled with characters I really wanted to shake and tell them to wake up.
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Highly recommended by some of my finest recommending-friends, I was not particularly affected by this book, as expertly crafted as it was. I was never swept up in the suspenseful/suspenseless plot, nor did I respond to the characters, who seemed like weird miniature creatures from a Raymond Chandler novel. (The weird, fringe characters from a Raymond Chandler novel, not Philip Marlowe or anyone.) Even the classicism (and I'm not kidding when I say that I DO love the classical world) never really
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This should have been 200 pages shorter! Beyond that, Tartt’s writing is beautiful and this book should have been right up my alley, but I struggled to get into it or to care about any of the characters.
Apr 15, 2013
Alaina
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Jul 04, 2016
Christina MOVED TO STORYGRAPH Perucci
marked it as to-read
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