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I should have read the hard copy rather than listen to the author narrate this book. She was a terrible choice for narrator - her slightly southern, female voice was completely wrong for the first-person narration of this book.
Aside from the narration quality, I really enjoyed the book. The pacing was excellent and the characters were sufficiently interesting to hold my attention throughout a long book. I liked this so much better than The Goldfinch. The characters are pretentious, hateful, snob ...more
Aside from the narration quality, I really enjoyed the book. The pacing was excellent and the characters were sufficiently interesting to hold my attention throughout a long book. I liked this so much better than The Goldfinch. The characters are pretentious, hateful, snob ...more
Despite all the rave reviews of this book I really didn't think I would like it. I wasn't all that intrigued by a tale of uber intellectual Classics students who go out to the woods to reenact a Bacchanal. The whole thing just seemed pretentious and I figured I'd find it annoying. Still, when I saw this at a library book sale for $1.00, I grabbed it thinking I might want it at some point. It stayed shelved for several years until I got the audio version from the library a few months ago and deci
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Richard papen begins attending Hampden College and becomes a student of Julian Morrow, a professor of Greek with only 5 other students. From the beginning of the book the reader knows that one of the students is murdered. About half of the book leads up to the murder and the rest covers the aftermath. I really disliked all the characters in this book so I can't rate it any higher. The whole book is bleak and depressing and somewhat pointless.
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This is on a bunch of Top Read lists, and I'm not really sure why. The premise of a student being killed as part of a secret society's ancient ritual sounded really interesting, but in fact the book falls really flat. Tartt trys to be overly academic, and at the end of the book I couldn't help asking, what was the point?
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Feb 26, 2018
Deedee
marked it as to-read
TWINS "And then there were a pair, boy and girl. I saw them together a great deal, and at first I thought they were boyfriend and girlfriend, until one day I saw them up close and realized they had to be siblings. Later I learned they were twins."
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Mar 28, 2008
Mimi
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May 03, 2008
Jenn
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May 06, 2008
Julianne
marked it as 1001-books-to-read
Sep 30, 2010
Lisa
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Dec 17, 2011
Kristina
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Oct 11, 2012
Harold Ogle
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Jan 05, 2014
Rebekah
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Jun 11, 2014
Sara
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Jan 26, 2015
Cora
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