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A review by 21stcenturyfox
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
5.0
4.7/5. Edited after I ponder more about it. There are so many details I missed upon my first read, which made me grew to appreciate the book even more and I feel like I didn't fully get it when I reviewed it right after finishing the book.
I see a lot of people romanticise this book which I find weird, I mean it's mentioned in the first paragraph of the prologue that this book is warning you against romanticisation.
“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
Now, the Greek students. It what makes me see it as a dark comedy, these kids are real silly. They are so not grounded in reality to the point of thinking they LITERALLY SAW DIONYSIUS. No, you were drunk and starving, it's hallucination, fellas. They are out of touch and arrogant, Henry thought of murder as a "redistribution of matter"
I feel like the point goes over some people's head. They wanted to be the Greek students, but they are not what you should aspire to be, while I agree that being a scholar is admirable, it's being touched on by Richard in the prologue.
“A moi. L’histoire d’une de mes folies.” a quote from Rimbaud's A Season in Hell. “Now for me. The story of one of my lunacies.”
I see a lot of people romanticise this book which I find weird, I mean it's mentioned in the first paragraph of the prologue that this book is warning you against romanticisation.
“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
Now, the Greek students. It what makes me see it as a dark comedy, these kids are real silly. They are so not grounded in reality to the point of thinking they LITERALLY SAW DIONYSIUS. No, you were drunk and starving, it's hallucination, fellas. They are out of touch and arrogant, Henry thought of murder as a "redistribution of matter"
I feel like the point goes over some people's head. They wanted to be the Greek students, but they are not what you should aspire to be, while I agree that being a scholar is admirable, it's being touched on by Richard in the prologue.
“A moi. L’histoire d’une de mes folies.” a quote from Rimbaud's A Season in Hell. “Now for me. The story of one of my lunacies.”