The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
$19.57
"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”
I am always trying to chase the intense pleasure of my first reading of this book. An absolutely perfect murder mystery set at an elite northeastern college, where our outsider protagonist gets seduced by a charismatic Classics professor into a strange secret society. So atmospheric, so perverse, such unforgettable characters. Whenever the air starts getting crispy, I reach for her.
3 months ago
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Reading this for the first time right now and WOW. Feeling the need to go to every rec for this book to tell people how good it is & document that mid-book feeling. I know I'll want to read it again, but I can only read it for the first time once!
@Ksteg Reporting back. AHHHH! Woah. Such poetic and complicated characters in crazy circumstances that THEY engineered themselves. Like, I'm astounded at the tragedy and like I'm reading an anicent story, the tragedy feels comically avoidable. This book is a parable. Idk, I'm just processing. But wowowowowow
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The Secret History
Ella Gmelich
“soap opera storyline set on a bucolic east coast liberal arts school in the 80s.”
Jesse Peyronel
“One of my favorite novels of all time. For the outsider in all of us.”
emma
“insufferable wasps attending pretentious school commit drug fueled murders pretending to be ancient greeks and hope to be blessed by a professor they believe to be god. it’s fantastic. everyone in it is horrific. donna whatever goes on inside your head is fucked up & i want to hang out there forever.”
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