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The Secret History (1992)

de Donna Tartt

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18,478514238 (4.05)1 / 719
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.… (més)
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Es mostren 1-5 de 511 (següent | mostra-les totes)
This is one of my favorite books EVER. I was a Classics major and just fell in love with the tight knit group and the intrigue. Fantastic writing! ( )
  JessicaMcN | May 11, 2023 |
Lost interest at 11%. Boring.
  kevindern | Apr 27, 2023 |
I took off a star simply because I hate Richard Papen so much, but this was an incredible book to sift through.

The world of "dark academia" is divisive and it's an either "you love it" or "you hate it" area, and I've found that it centers on how well people can put up with pretentiousness. The Secret History works as a sort of satire in this respect, where the prose is beautiful and flowery whereas the characters are unhinged, dumb as fuck, and absolutely ridiculous. The juxtaposition of Richard analyzing the morality of committing murder while he snorts c*caine in a Burger King parking lot and pretends that he's better than anyone else at his preppy college is laughable. His only qualm with his friends holding a bacchanal and getting into horrible trouble is that they didn't invite him too.

It's kind of what I love about this genre. Academia is often an isolating and gate-keeping world, and to see it presented in such glowing terms while also revealing how absurd the reality is keeps me thoroughly entertained.

Also, Judy Poovy supremacy. She is the best character. ( )
  abhkolo | Apr 25, 2023 |
Goo book. Dragged for a bit. 4th 5th drags a bit but very well written and smart - jag ( )
  GottliebFamily | Apr 17, 2023 |
ancient Greek studies students in Vermont-- a modern day Greek tragedy
  Renaissancereader | Apr 17, 2023 |
Es mostren 1-5 de 511 (següent | mostra-les totes)
As a ferociously well-paced entertainment, ... "The Secret History" succeeds magnificently. Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled, "The Secret History" achieves just what Ms. Tartt seems to have set out to do: it marches with cool, classical inevitability toward its terrible conclusion.
 

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Tartt, Donnaautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
de Wilde, BarbaraDissenyadorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kidd, ChipDissenyadorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Landolfi, IdolinaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lange, Barbara deTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Larsen, IdaLouTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
— PLATO,
Republic, Book II
I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following:
1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are.
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Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?
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...how I longed to be an orphan when I was a child!
[They were] sitting at a table that was spread with papers and pens and bottles of ink. The bottles of ink I remember particularly, because I was very charmed by them, and by the long black straight pens, which looked incredibly archaic and troublesome.
[The tutor] reached for a pen in a cup on his desk; amazingly, it was full of Montblanc fountain pens, Meisterstucks, at least a dozen of them.
"Guess what," said Bunny, "Henry bought himself a Montblanc pen." ... He nodded at the cup of sleek black pens that sat on Julian's desk. "How much are those things worth? ... Three hundred bucks a pop? ... I remember when you used to say how ugly they were. You used to say you'd never write with a thing in your life but a straight pen." ... Bunny picked [the pen] up and turned it back and forth in his fingers. "It's like the fat pencil I used to use in first grade," he said. ... "Now, what kind of pens do we all use here? Francois, you're a nib-and-bottle man like myself, no? ... and you, Robert? What sort of pens did they teach you to use in California?" "Ball points," I said.
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Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

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