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What can I say about this book to adequately capture its essence? When you pick up a Donna Tartt book, you know you're in for discomfiting characters and plots. Never has this been more true than with this novel, a chilling study of fallen human nature and the influence of charismatic manipulation. This book will make your skin crawl, and its ending will invite you to un-learn and un-believe everything you previously thought you knew about the book.
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Richard papen begins attending Hampden College and becomes a student of Julian Morrow, a professor of Greek with only 5 other students. From the beginning of the book the reader knows that one of the students is murdered. About half of the book leads up to the murder and the rest covers the aftermath. I really disliked all the characters in this book so I can't rate it any higher. The whole book is bleak and depressing and somewhat pointless.
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