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I've had this on my tbr for awhile but because of the length, I kept putting it off, but with the tag 2013 and also a category of book about art on a bingo card, this was the perfect opportunity to get this one read. I also was able to do the audio as Overdrive had it available. I liked it, it is a good story in part about a boy who loses his mother in a terrorist attack at the art gallery where he manages to escape (with a painting). He seems like a really nice boy but from that point on, he lo
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The Goldfinch has many threads woven throughout but primarily tells the story of Theo a young adolescent growing to adulthood with PTSD after he survives - but loses his mother to - a bombing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As he's leaving the museum, he stumbles across his mother's favorite painting, Fabritius's The Goldfinch, and without thinking picks it up and takes it home.
The strength of the book lays in its characters. Theo was well drawn, likable and understandable although frustratin ...more
The strength of the book lays in its characters. Theo was well drawn, likable and understandable although frustratin ...more
This book, although very interesting was too long. It was a dynamic look at the underworld of art and drugs involving youngsters and their parents. It was disturbing, very informative and most entertaining. Once I resigned myself to being patient and tolerating all the rambling, I was able to enjoy it better. All in all, I'm glad to have finally finished it.
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An extraordinary book which moved me to tears. A great deal of the time I was wondering why I was enjoying it so much. Why couldn't I put it down? It is a very long book with just one section of intense action. To my mind the reason I couldn't put it down was that it was so beautifully written that it was profound without my realizing it, just in the last few pages the point is clear, and it is a wonderful point about art, life, beauty and misery. The two main characters are self-destructive but
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Aug 03, 2013
Michael
marked it as to-read
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Travel Books and Movies
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