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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I am not positive how to rate this. I had moments of boredom, but more often than not I just wanted to be in the room as they discussed. I was here for all of it. I could listen to them talk to one another, while still in the background be curious on the painting or where are we all headed. However, the overarching plot (the piece the moves the story forward) is so incredibly slow. The first 10% were hard but full of development, then the final 10% was the remainder of that story, as if the author forgot about it.
Worth it, I think.
Worth it, I think.
i have finally finished this monster of a book!!! and i really enjoyed it. donna tartt is such an amazing writer. the imagery and flow of her words is just gorgeous and i find myself reading slower just to catch everything. the book did drag a bit in the middle and i was definitely most invested in the first half of the story. however, the ending was so good and had me tearing up, which made up for the second half being a little slower. and honestly, i’m not reading a donna tartt book for the plot, her writing is really what makes her books stand out. anyways, i would recommend this to everyone i know! this is one of those books that i can already tell will change my life.
here of a lot of my favorite quotes (there were so many) just for safekeeping!!
“every new event - everything i did for the rest of my life - would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away”
“at her tone, at once intimate and formal, a terrible sadness came over me, and when we looked at each other it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment, clear as glass, a complexity of stillness that was rainy afternoons in spring, a dark chair in the hallway, the light as air touch of her hand on the back of my head”
“spring in new york was always a poisoned time for me, a seasonal echo of my mother’s death blowing in with the daffodils, budding trees, and blood splashes, a thin spray of hallucination and horror”
“as long as i am acting out of love, i feel i am doing the best i know how”
“and i keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful”
“does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we lose everything that matters in the end and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it’s possible to play it with a kind of joy?”
“and i feel i have something very serious and urgent to say to you, my non-existent reader, and i feel i should say it urgently as if i were standing in a room with you. that life - whatever else it is - is short. that fate is cruel but maybe not random. that nature (meaning death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. that maybe even if we’re not always glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. and in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what death doesn’t touch”
here of a lot of my favorite quotes (there were so many) just for safekeeping!!
“every new event - everything i did for the rest of my life - would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away”
“at her tone, at once intimate and formal, a terrible sadness came over me, and when we looked at each other it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment, clear as glass, a complexity of stillness that was rainy afternoons in spring, a dark chair in the hallway, the light as air touch of her hand on the back of my head”
“spring in new york was always a poisoned time for me, a seasonal echo of my mother’s death blowing in with the daffodils, budding trees, and blood splashes, a thin spray of hallucination and horror”
“as long as i am acting out of love, i feel i am doing the best i know how”
“and i keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful”
“does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we lose everything that matters in the end and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it’s possible to play it with a kind of joy?”
“and i feel i have something very serious and urgent to say to you, my non-existent reader, and i feel i should say it urgently as if i were standing in a room with you. that life - whatever else it is - is short. that fate is cruel but maybe not random. that nature (meaning death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. that maybe even if we’re not always glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. and in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what death doesn’t touch”
Si Charles Dickens hubiera escrito una novela en el siglo 21, hubiera escrito the Goldfinch. Pero The Goldfinch fue escrito por Donna Tart, la autora de The Secret History, una de las novelas que tiene loco al mundo de libros en internet, Y CON MOTIVO.
Pero bueno, The Goldfinch. Nuestro personaje principal, Theo, es una especie de Oliver Twist, si oliver twist vivieran en manhattan y su mama se muriera en un ataque terrorista en un museo. Y si luego del ataque terrorista, se robara uno de los cuadros del museo.
Este evento obviamente traumatico, despega una serie de sucesos y personajes fascinantes, que ademas, tienen el honor de haber sido escritos por alguien como Donna Tart, que escribe sus novelas como quien escribe poesia.
The Goldfinch no es corto, y definitivamente al final de esta novela sientes que conoces a estos personajes demasiado bien. Has pasado años y miles de aventuras con ellos. Y como el ave que sale en el cuadro, tu tambien estas atado a esta historia por siempre.
Pero bueno, The Goldfinch. Nuestro personaje principal, Theo, es una especie de Oliver Twist, si oliver twist vivieran en manhattan y su mama se muriera en un ataque terrorista en un museo. Y si luego del ataque terrorista, se robara uno de los cuadros del museo.
Este evento obviamente traumatico, despega una serie de sucesos y personajes fascinantes, que ademas, tienen el honor de haber sido escritos por alguien como Donna Tart, que escribe sus novelas como quien escribe poesia.
The Goldfinch no es corto, y definitivamente al final de esta novela sientes que conoces a estos personajes demasiado bien. Has pasado años y miles de aventuras con ellos. Y como el ave que sale en el cuadro, tu tambien estas atado a esta historia por siempre.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i need donna to write my epitaph
Loved it! I love the through way Tartt moves through the thoughts of Theo as a young child moved from family to family. Tartt really showed instead of told why the painting was of high importance for Theo, and was really happy that not all loose ends were tied up at the end. Even Theo was not a fully likable character, he was very flawed but I totally understood that, which didn't turn me off of him. The inter generational story lines played really well, and I really loved all the characters (especially Boris). I flew through this book even though it has more than 700 pages. It was great.
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated