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Feb 12, 2015
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La anécdota original parecÃa apuntar más alto, pero el exceso de páginas en las que se cuentan cosas que no aportan nada a la trama hace que la narración encalle en más de una ocasión. Finalmente, la novela remonta, convirtiéndose en una historia interesante, con una buena reflexión estética. Pero, ¡ay! si hubiese usado más la tijera...
This book is brilliant. So filled with tragedy and yet somehow remains upbeat and somehow uplifting. There are elements of suspense and mystery but its literary fiction through and through. Usually it frustrates me when characters make bad choices, but you understand the motivations and the foibles of the main character based on all the trauma he endures. Somehow the author is able to write an incredible story (from the original sense of the word) and make every word believable. Highly recommend
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This is one of those books that everyone will have an opinion on - highly divisive. I fall on the side of loving it. (My Donna Tartt record is: *loved* The Secret History, hated The Little Friend). This work is so vivid, so evocative, so suspenseful (despite its epic length) and contains some extraordinary reflections - in the final pages especially - on life, passion, love, chaos and the meaning or meaninglessness of life. For me, this was an incredibly cinematic novel - the characters as real
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Tastes like Dickens
Seriously was Tartt paid by the word? This story was way, way, way too long.
It started out well enough. I really enjoyed it up until Theo, Boris, Kitsey, et al became adults. They were tolerable as children but not as adults. I did not like these people and their drugs, and their drinking, and their material world. By page 600 I was ready to get them out of my life. By page 673 my stomach churned thinking I had another 100 pages of these people. By 748 I wasn't even sure I ca ...more
Seriously was Tartt paid by the word? This story was way, way, way too long.
It started out well enough. I really enjoyed it up until Theo, Boris, Kitsey, et al became adults. They were tolerable as children but not as adults. I did not like these people and their drugs, and their drinking, and their material world. By page 600 I was ready to get them out of my life. By page 673 my stomach churned thinking I had another 100 pages of these people. By 748 I wasn't even sure I ca ...more
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
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Read on kindle. My first full price kindle purchase. Very good, but long, dense, and complicated.
This book takes the reader through a series of events that shape the main character's life. The characters were interesting, and certain moments were hilarious careening into intense suffering.
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Wonderful book that transports you into the complex life of Theo Decker. Loved it!
Damn near perfect. I love Boris!
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