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My first Tartt book. She's an excellent writer, but it's a dark, dark tale! I almost feel a little bit tainted just by reading it!
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March book club pick. I put off reading this until the last possible second, and to my surprise, once I picked it up, it was quite engaging. I started off REALLY not liking anyone in the book, and I'm about a third of the way in now, and I STILL don't like anyone, but yet I'm curious to see what happens next. There is a certain distance to the narrative, common in much "modern literature" that I do not care for at all, so that is off-putting. I suppose it is balanced by the fact that it's set in
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Amazing writing but LORDY did I hate these people!
Ahhh what can I say - of course I loved this book. It hits on any number of tropes and themes that I love in literature, it has excellent prose, and the Greek, oh the Greek.
This book might have been ok if it was 200 pages instead of 500+. The last 200 pages are literally just horrible people getting drunk and taking sleeping pills.
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