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diaryofaditi's review against another edition
5.0
"i am nothing in my soul if not obsessive"
this book had me spiraling yet surprisingly calm. it was like running towards the ocean at withered night and feeling the water slowly touch your feet.
every character in this book had achieved to totally grasp my attention?? the complexity and insane yet relatable thoughts were so deeply indulged by me. i was so engaged with how they were so into what they studied(like legit killed a person just for an experiment for crying out loud) and then being so nonchalant about planning to murder their own friend and at the same time so casually attending dinners and smoking cigars and drinking themselves to death. they were really one ELIST GROUP of members.
henry winter a magnificent beast, the way he drove me into believing every word uttered by him was the real truth and the only way a person should see (rendered me speechless). my fav sociopath ever. he didn't have any moral compass in his life and it DROVE me insane but man de he eat me up like who say things like “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.” i mean MORE ICONIC can you be and its just how serene calm and composed he is throughout this.
richard papen was a listless yet igniting character in itself. what i will say is that he was rather overexaggerating b!tch like fr just sshhhh. i mean he was like really one of the rational ones but do u really like to read abt the one who is rational for a murder. he literally had his infatuation abt well everyone and seemly everyone played him and that dorove him to the monstrosity of the life he has now. he overall a lovely student but i need MORE essence
camila macaulay was down to earth a very fascinating woman, you could never really truly figure her out but you had this gut of trust in her and ykw they say "women empower women"
francis abernathy my anxious gay babe he was such a flirt and like we needed this kind of energy in our book it was a necessity.
charles macaulay i really truly liked his charm in the book but when i got to know how he treated camila i just see hot red pang of hate for him
bunny/ edmund corcoran was a silly soulless drenching homophobic & the guy who was murdered(nvm)
julian morrow he didn't play such a big role, but it will always faze me how he could carry to manage these 6 truly compelling characters in a single room.
lastly i would just like to quote lady gaga "i don't believe in the glorification of murder"but if its them it's all right
this book had me spiraling yet surprisingly calm. it was like running towards the ocean at withered night and feeling the water slowly touch your feet.
every character in this book had achieved to totally grasp my attention?? the complexity and insane yet relatable thoughts were so deeply indulged by me. i was so engaged with how they were so into what they studied(like legit killed a person just for an experiment for crying out loud) and then being so nonchalant about planning to murder their own friend and at the same time so casually attending dinners and smoking cigars and drinking themselves to death. they were really one ELIST GROUP of members.
henry winter a magnificent beast, the way he drove me into believing every word uttered by him was the real truth and the only way a person should see (rendered me speechless). my fav sociopath ever. he didn't have any moral compass in his life and it DROVE me insane but man de he eat me up like who say things like “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.” i mean MORE ICONIC can you be and its just how serene calm and composed he is throughout this.
richard papen was a listless yet igniting character in itself. what i will say is that he was rather overexaggerating b!tch like fr just sshhhh. i mean he was like really one of the rational ones but do u really like to read abt the one who is rational for a murder. he literally had his infatuation abt well everyone and seemly everyone played him and that dorove him to the monstrosity of the life he has now. he overall a lovely student but i need MORE essence
camila macaulay was down to earth a very fascinating woman, you could never really truly figure her out but you had this gut of trust in her and ykw they say "women empower women"
francis abernathy my anxious gay babe he was such a flirt and like we needed this kind of energy in our book it was a necessity.
charles macaulay i really truly liked his charm in the book but when i got to know how he treated camila i just see hot red pang of hate for him
bunny/ edmund corcoran was a silly soulless drenching homophobic & the guy who was murdered(nvm)
julian morrow he didn't play such a big role, but it will always faze me how he could carry to manage these 6 truly compelling characters in a single room.
lastly i would just like to quote lady gaga "i don't believe in the glorification of murder"but if its them it's all right
capellini's review against another edition
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
phart7's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
sputniktart's review against another edition
5.0
“the dionysian is no picnic. it is the cthonian realities which apollo evades, the blind grinding of subterranean force, the long slow suck, the murk and ooze. it is the dehumanizing brutality of biology and geology, the darwinian waste and bloodshed, the squalor and rot we must block from consciousness to retain our apollonian integrity as persons.” (camille paglia, “sex and violence, or nature and art”)
i’m not sure if there’s anything i could add to the discussion of this book: an arresting tale of a group of constantly drunk friends, obsessed with each other and their own delusions who willfully fall in line to form their own classical cult religion around the most quietly charismatic member of their group; the member least concerned with our questions of morals and social order. a love letter to classics and the most dreadful imagining of reinstating its values in a modern setting.
i’m not sure if there’s anything i could add to the discussion of this book: an arresting tale of a group of constantly drunk friends, obsessed with each other and their own delusions who willfully fall in line to form their own classical cult religion around the most quietly charismatic member of their group; the member least concerned with our questions of morals and social order. a love letter to classics and the most dreadful imagining of reinstating its values in a modern setting.
annamaryd365's review against another edition
4.5
Just finished this book and goddamn, I don't even know what to say. I totally get the hype for this one. I think this book's strongest aspect by far is how it lures you in the same way Richard gets lured in. People complain about how slow the book can be and while I understand that criticism, I think it worked wonderfully. You don't even find out about what they have done until you are well into the book and you've been endeared to the characters and you can't help but feel a bit bad for them. You understand their logic and you can barely even blame them for what they've done (at least while you're reading that is). There was a moment towards the end where I just sat there and thought "Who the fuck are these people?" because you don't even realize until later that you actually know very little about them. But at that point, you're already 400 pages into the novel and you love all of them just as much as Richard does. The book admittedly does drag a little bit in the middle and gets a tad repetitive but overall I thought it was fantastic and if you're up for something long and slow-paced you should 100% read this.
swarrior06's review against another edition
This book was so unnecessarily long, never been so bored reading a book
urvulgardarling's review against another edition
5.0
such a great book!!! kept me hooked the whole way through!!!!!!! all of it is SO well written
anna0819's review against another edition
1.0
Oh. My. God. Even with the audiobook at 1.8x this book was excruciatingly slow and boring. Maybe it’s over my head but I really had to push through this one. Dark academia? Maybe. Thriller? Not so much.