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Feb 21, 2016
RJ - Slayer of Trolls
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it was amazing
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Although the murder of Bunny is mentioned in the very first sentence, we spend the first half of the book meeting the narrator and his classmates in Ancient Greek (including Bunny), along with the other wasted youth of the charmingly offbeat liberal arts Hampden College, which might just have a similarity or two to Tartt's own alma mater of Bennington College (she was in the same graduating class as Bret Easton Ellis and Jonathan Lethem, and only a few years ahead of Peter Dinklage). Tartt's cha
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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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Enjoyable book; however, the initial crime committed by the students to set up the storyline seemded far fetched.
This is one of those "WTH did I just read?" books that I'll be thinking about for a while. But I also desperately need this to be a prestige mini-series drama.
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Originally finished in fall 1992/spring 1993.
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