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I really enjoyed this book, it's a real page-turner, once I started it, I couldn't put it down.
This book is about a group of greek students in Vermont's Hampden College who kept themselves apart from the remains students: Richard is the narrator; Henry is their leader in all senses: Charles and Camilla are the twins brothers; Bunny was a real nuisance to all of them. And Julian is their teacher.
Henry is manipulative among his friends.
Money surpassed their friendship.
After a bacchanal, they accid ...more
This book is about a group of greek students in Vermont's Hampden College who kept themselves apart from the remains students: Richard is the narrator; Henry is their leader in all senses: Charles and Camilla are the twins brothers; Bunny was a real nuisance to all of them. And Julian is their teacher.
Henry is manipulative among his friends.
Money surpassed their friendship.
After a bacchanal, they accid ...more
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You wouldn't think a murder mystery where both victim and killer are revealed in the first ten pages could hold the reader's interest, but Tartt manages it seemingly without effort, focusing her tale on how that moment was reached and what the aftershocks are for all those concerned. Henry, Francis, Bunny, the twins Charles and Camilla, and Richard, the narrator, are initially brought together because they're studying ancient Greek at a tiny (very) liberal arts college, and their progression fro
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Originally finished in fall 1992/spring 1993.
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