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The Secret History

Donna Tartt

Start date: January 1, 2014

Finish date: January 31, 2014

Discussion: Past Reads

Why we're reading this: One of our two regular group reads for January 2014.
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May 10, 2015 Colleen Scidmore rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-in-2015, audio-books, contemporary-fiction, would-not-recommend

This book is about a College Student named Richard who moves from California to go to school in Vermont to get as far as possible away from his unbelievably cold and uncaring parents. Once there he enrolls in a small and elite Greek Class that will forever change his life.

Richard try's very hard to fit in with the other students who unlike him all come from some sort of upper east coast society and come from some kind of money. After a little time Richard does bond with his classmates and prett ...more

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Mar 29, 2015 Kevin Xu rated it really liked it

Going into the book by reading the back, this was not the kind of book I expected. I thought this was one of those books all about college kids traveling around the world learning about the renaissance rather than about the cover up of a murder. Overall this is a good book that become just one of those books about a group of rich kids in private school that thought their parents money would protect them from everything seen from the eyes of a outsider.

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Mar 15, 2023 Sherri rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Dark Academia at its finest because The Secret History is the granddaddy of Dark Academia, one of my absolute favorite genres. Yes, it’s a little long at about 560 pages, and sure, it could have been a little shorter, but it’s absolutely unputdownable, if I can make up a word.

You’ll find out in the first sentences that the characters have killed their friend, Bunny. From there on, you have to find out how and why and when you do, your mouth will drop. Mine did. So well-written with character de ...more

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Mar 01, 2008 Elaine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008

The characters are all throw-backs to an earlier era (I originally thought the novel was taking place in the seventies until references to the first Gulf War placed the story somewhere in the early nineties). There are a few scenes that do little to advance the plot or develop the characters and just make the book that much longer, but overall this is a well-written and interesting study on how a select group of people react to events of extreme stress.

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