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The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Winner of The 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, and old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate. It is being adapted into a film to be released in late 2019.
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All I can say is... HOLY CRAP MAN - what a ride from start to finish.
I am honestly shocked (pleasantly) that Boris made it all the way through the book without dying and is still alive.
Glad Theo made it too but the Reeve business was never fully dealt with? Did he ever stop the drugs and drinking and self-deprecation?
Those are my only qualms. Loved this book- what an adventure... HIGHLY recommend!
I am honestly shocked (pleasantly) that Boris made it all the way through the book without dying and is still alive.
Glad Theo made it too but the Reeve business was never fully dealt with? Did he ever stop the drugs and drinking and self-deprecation?
Those are my only qualms. Loved this book- what an adventure... HIGHLY recommend!
Yes this was a very long book. I could not put it down. 3 stars is liked it and 4 stars is really liked it. For me it was in between the two, good story and glad I read it.
BIG SPOILER, I really thought Theo had the painting all along. I never saw it coming that Boris had it. Even when Lucius showed him the info about the Miami deal, I still didn't think Boris had it.
It was interesting to see if a person is good or bad depending on genes or environment or both. Theo just had a sucky life. It was also interesting that Boris had a sucky life but was always happy.
I really liked Hobie.
It was hard for me to believe that Mrs. Barbour would just give up on life and retreat to her room. The whole Barbour family was pretty messed up.
The Lucius Reeve guy sure was smarmy.
The drug use in this book OMG. And the descriptions of what Theo and Boris were feeling when they were on drugs....made me truly wonder if the author wasn't doing drugs at the moment she was writing that part of the book. Because sometimes it felt like it was different people writing different parts of the book.
For the amount of words in this book I found it annoying that the words Punch Drunk and Punchy turned up so frequently.
I keep thinking about what happens after,
Does Theo return home?
If so does he still get married?
What is the business that Boris is in? He has never killed anyone so what is it?
Will Theo ever go work with Boris?
How old is Popchyk anyway?
BIG SPOILER, I really thought Theo had the painting all along. I never saw it coming that Boris had it. Even when Lucius showed him the info about the Miami deal, I still didn't think Boris had it.
It was interesting to see if a person is good or bad depending on genes or environment or both. Theo just had a sucky life. It was also interesting that Boris had a sucky life but was always happy.
I really liked Hobie.
It was hard for me to believe that Mrs. Barbour would just give up on life and retreat to her room. The whole Barbour family was pretty messed up.
The Lucius Reeve guy sure was smarmy.
The drug use in this book OMG. And the descriptions of what Theo and Boris were feeling when they were on drugs....made me truly wonder if the author wasn't doing drugs at the moment she was writing that part of the book. Because sometimes it felt like it was different people writing different parts of the book.
For the amount of words in this book I found it annoying that the words Punch Drunk and Punchy turned up so frequently.
I keep thinking about what happens after,
Does Theo return home?
If so does he still get married?
What is the business that Boris is in? He has never killed anyone so what is it?
Will Theo ever go work with Boris?
How old is Popchyk anyway?
If I have to describe this book in one word it is "DRAG" oooon and oooon and oooooon. If you want a biggest piece of time waster, friends you have found it.
How the FFF did this book become #1 best seller again?!?? Oh right, never mind, don't answer that because the same thing happened to Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey too.
Don't get me wrong, Tartt writes well, really well. But she writes like one of those people that have too many great ideas but all unrelated, and then decide to just put all of them together and call it a book. This feels like a One pot dish of about 30 random ingredients, just because each individual ingredient is good doesn't mean they are great together.
If you want to understand how I feel this way please read all the 1-2 star reviews below. They described exactly how I feel about the book, I should have listened to them :'(
How the FFF did this book become #1 best seller again?!?? Oh right, never mind, don't answer that because the same thing happened to Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey too.
Don't get me wrong, Tartt writes well, really well. But she writes like one of those people that have too many great ideas but all unrelated, and then decide to just put all of them together and call it a book. This feels like a One pot dish of about 30 random ingredients, just because each individual ingredient is good doesn't mean they are great together.
If you want to understand how I feel this way please read all the 1-2 star reviews below. They described exactly how I feel about the book, I should have listened to them :'(
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