The Goldfinch in Around the World in 80 Books

Apr 04, 2014 Rachel rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mystery

What the hell Donna Tartt? What the hell world at large?? I went into this not expecting a masterpiece, not expecting a Pulitzer Prize work (especially since I was reading it when it did actually win the award) but thought it would be a fun, fast-paced, well-executed piece of fluff; something lighter and trashier that I would have a good time with. Blegh. And I loved her other two novels! Were they the same as this? Did my reading tastes mature? I don't know. But I really wonder if it would have ...more

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Aug 07, 2020 Tania rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2020-audiobooks

This book was tooooooo long. I almost gave up on it so many times...my curiosity won out, so I finished it but I do not believe it was a good use of 32 hours of my life. It might have been less painful if I was driving more. I’ll still watch the movie because I’m curious to see how some of the main characters are represented in film...this may just turn out to be one time when I like the movie more than the book.
I did have moments when I was really captured by the characters or events but it ju ...more

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Jan 15, 2014 Oblomov rated it really liked it

This is either five stars or two stars and I have no idea exactly which one it was. Somedays it completely infuriated me, both in stories and characters but it other cases I found myself enraptured by the authors word and ultimately existential message. Yes the world is chaos, purposeless, if you look for it you will not find it, it our reason to find our own meaning, our own reason for existence.

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