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From excited to being bored and the excited again and eventually snoozed between the pages, the most impressive thing for me about this book is its length. No wonder people said that The Goldfinch is very Dickensian and lengthy- it felt like it never ends! Some of the descriptions are very lovely and used effectively but lots of them are also too much for my taste.
Although the character development is pretty great and I can't help but falling for Theo (he's the perfect example of ...more
From excited to being bored and the excited again and eventually snoozed between the pages, the most impressive thing for me about this book is its length. No wonder people said that The Goldfinch is very Dickensian and lengthy- it felt like it never ends! Some of the descriptions are very lovely and used effectively but lots of them are also too much for my taste.
Although the character development is pretty great and I can't help but falling for Theo (he's the perfect example of ...more
My review is on Audible. I basically stated that the narrator was magnificent, the story was sad and memorable, but entirely too long. Too many nuances and repetitions and details that went on and on to the point of boredom.
This book is beyond the realm of normal literary fiction, and contains a richness and depth that is rare. Tartt is just...a fantastic and brilliant writer. Her books are well researched and somehow both specific and universal, depressingly real and hopeful, magical and mundane. This book was a million pages long, and so so worth it. Tartt is up there with the great writers. Recommended for people who truly love to read, who really let themselves be immersed in their books, and who have the menta
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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
I did have moments when I was really captured by the characters or events but it ju ...more
Compulsively readable book. Great characters, storyline, plot arc. Perhaps the best description/feeling of contemporary Las Vegas that I have ever read--besides the strip, LV is exurbs, hungry children, drugs, catch-as-catch-can.
I gave it four stars instead of five because of the lack of economy of prose. Not that I wanted the book to end, it was just that much of the wordiness could have been contained/edited for style & grace.
I gave it four stars instead of five because of the lack of economy of prose. Not that I wanted the book to end, it was just that much of the wordiness could have been contained/edited for style & grace.
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.
Jul 03, 2016
Jen
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