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79 out of 79 people found this review helpful.

Studying the Classics: The Potboiler

Date of Review:  Jun 15, 2000
Review: Okay so if you like Bret Easton Ellis or Thomas Harris, you're going to love this 500+ page novel about a group of Greek studies students. Yep, they're studying Greek and the classics. Wait, where are you going, Gentle Reader? You don't find reading...
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  4.0

by: that-guy
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Complicated thriller with cool...
Cons
Classical allusions can get on people's...
 
78 out of 78 people found this review helpful.

Primitive Impulses: Donna Tartt's The Secret History

Date of Review:  Jun 7, 2003
The Bottom Line: An impressive debut.
Review: Donna Tartt's debut novel The Secret History is about an elite group of students at Hampden College, a fictitious liberal arts school in Vermont (modeled, however, after Bennington College, where Tartt graduated along with novelist friend Bret...
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  4.0

by: WilliamJones
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Beautifully structured; suspenseful;...
Cons
Implausibility
 
58 out of 58 people found this review helpful.

A Compelling Literary Thriller

Date of Review:  Feb 7, 2000
Review: When one thinks of thrillers, privileged classics students and snow-covered northeastern colleges aren?t necessarily the first images that come to mind. However, The Secret History manages quite successfully to be a smart, literary tale of murder...
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  5.0

by: kchowell
Recommended to buy: Yes

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A well-written, intriguing literary...
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It may be difficult to put this novel...
 
50 out of 50 people found this review helpful.

The Secret Is Out

Date of Review:  May 10, 2004
The Bottom Line: A good read if slightly overambitious first novel that ultimately fails its original aims.
Review: The Secret History is Donna Tartt s first novel. Since its publication in 1993 it has become a best seller and it has been critically acclaimed, it even made it in to the top 100 in the recent A good read' BBC list. So is it a great book? No. Let me...
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  4.0

by: mauri1000
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Well written, stylish prose
Cons
Flaws in the plot structure
 
49 out of 49 people found this review helpful.

Extracurricular Activities

Date of Review:  Apr 30, 2003
The Bottom Line: All I really needed to know, I learned from the Bottom Line.
Review: Normally, I hate x meets y comparisons they re lazy, off-the-cuff shorthand for real descriptions. For The Secret History, though, I ll make an exception; because it s so difficult to definitively state what this book is, it may be more helpful to...
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  3.0

by: disinclined
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Extremely weird, but in a good way.
Cons
Pace drags, tension flags, characters...
 
49 out of 49 people found this review helpful.

Have I got a secret for you!

Date of Review:  Oct 6, 2000
Review: "A strange cold breath of the ancient world" wafts around five Greek scholars and their charismatic professor. Rumors abound concerning all of them -- the professor no less than his beautiful young students -- for they are privileged, secretive,...
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  4.0

by: wordwalker
Recommended to buy: Yes

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mystery, Mysteries, nostalgia, balance
Cons
too much foreshadowing, two-dimensional...
 
19 out of 19 people found this review helpful.

SECRET HISTORY

Date of Review:  Jan 5, 2000
Review: If you enjoy a gripping plot that's well written, this is the novel for you. Be warned though, you will not be able to put this book down - all six hundred and sixty pages of it.
This is a remarkable first novel, and sadly the only one from...
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  5.0

by: nano
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Extremely well written, gripping plot
Cons
None
 
18 out of 18 people found this review helpful.

Greatly flawed...but still fascinating read. 3 1/2 stars.

Date of Review:  Jun 28, 2008
The Bottom Line: A worthwhile read for someone who avidly devours books, but this is also not a casual "summer read."
Review: Reading this book was a frustratingly unique experience for me. In some ways, it was well-written, highly-intelligent, interesting, luridly fascinating, evocative and left me eager to see what happened next. Yet it was often (at the same time)...
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  4.0

by: rmurray847
Recommended to buy: No

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Some really excellent writing, and an...
Cons
Pacing drags far too frequently.
 
11 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

Donna Tartt on the Banality of Murder

Date of Review:  Dec 20, 2000
Review: When we think of murder, we almost without exception regard it as a profoundly unethical, inhumane and immoral act. But even so, murder do occur, and consequently we often consider those who have committed murder as, in a fundamental way, different...
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  5.0

by: Bjrm
Recommended to buy: Yes

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It stands to be read more than ten...
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The book had to end somewhere...
 
8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

The Best Book I Ever Read

Date of Review:  May 3, 2000
Review: "A Secret History" by Donna Tartt is the most well written and captivating book I have ever read. From the very beginning to the last page, I was enthralled - actually upset when I finished the book - I didn't want it to end. The first time I read...
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  5.0

by: Mermaidgirl
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Well written, great characters,...
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Absolutely nothing
 

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