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I listened to the 32-hour audiobook version of this overly long but lovely book. The narrator did a great job and this is the best book I've read with my bookclub so far (though, perhaps, that says more about the bookclub choices than it does about this book). In any event, I enjoyed this book with its snippets of New York, the art world (and underworld), and the period of adolescence wherein one feels that every decision is momentous and no one can possibly understand so probably better not to
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I'm ditching. I've read most of the ending, and some of the stuff in between, but I'm really tired of the Goldfinch angst and the bag of pills. Nice to see Boris back, but not enough to make it to the end. All that said, I read the first 500 pages in one big gulp, something I haven't done in years so there's that. Plus, Boris and a great portrait of Vegas suburbs (and 'burbs in general).
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Dark and depressing is not my normal fare, and 770+ pages is a lot of melancholy. But I enjoyed The Goldfinch, if not for its exceptional prose then almost in spite of it: the rambling, sometimes unbelievable, and omnipresent gloom is just the right literary tool to put readers in the same state of mind as the miserably unhappy and shockingly narcissistic Theo.
As the novel unfolds, we watch a normal, mostly happy boy lose his mother, battle grief, and become wracked with anguish and guilt. We f ...more
As the novel unfolds, we watch a normal, mostly happy boy lose his mother, battle grief, and become wracked with anguish and guilt. We f ...more
Very healthy read at 771 pages. Slow going at times. Other reviews mention they did not like the length and Donna Tart could have taken out a lot of the superflous stuff. However, I love epic novels like these (The Son, Wally Lamb, Ken Follet...) so I don't mind the length. The protagonist, Theo Decker, is very unsympathetic at times. Mostly because he is very self-awared and makes the choices he makes so naturally at times I wanted to strangle him. Overall, I'd give 4/5 stars, if anything for j
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I was expecting so much more. Not impressed.
Aug 04, 2013
Amy W
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