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The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

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Apr 15, 2014 Astrid Lim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Done! Finally!
From excited to being bored and the excited again and eventually snoozed between the pages, the most impressive thing for me about this book is its length. No wonder people said that The Goldfinch is very Dickensian and lengthy- it felt like it never ends! Some of the descriptions are very lovely and used effectively but lots of them are also too much for my taste.

Although the character development is pretty great and I can't help but falling for Theo (he's the perfect example of ...more

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Jul 16, 2015 Heidi rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction, audiobook, abandoned

Pretty brutal. I liked the first 1/3 of the book, but I feel like this book could have been written in about 1/3 of the words. It feels very self-indulgent and its depressing without any promise of a payoff in the end.

I am ridiculously frustrated with the protagonist, who is incredibly selfish and seemingly without any redeeming qualities at this point. Just can't do it anymore. Abandoning this with the last third of it to go. Life is too short to spend any more time with Theo and his horribly ...more

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