The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

If you make it through this one you will likely appreciate the grand theme (spoiler so I won’t share). However, to me, this one drags. Too much down in the dumps stuff, the protagonist seems to make one bad choice after another, and while intelligent in some ways is really dumb in others. Almost a real dichotomy all in one guy. With some heavy edits this could have been a marvelous novel - as it is (especially the middle, another author who is caught up in the filler - like writing with list after list - ugh, spare me!) it is toooo loooong!

Could be the worst book I've ever not finished. I gave up. I had to.

I enjoyed the story well enough, but I had a lot of house cleaning to do while listening to it, and that made it easier to get through a story that could've been told with about 30% fewer words.

I'm on the fence with this one. I loved parts of it, but others just seemed to go on forever with no real purpose for all the wordiness and unnecessary character inner dialogue. Yes, it was pretty, gritty and whimsical, but a bit tedious to read. I did find myself skimming/scanning over a few chapters.

It was a struggle to get through this book. It was a bit ‘all over the place’ and somewhat monotonous. The plot was unique but the book could have been about 200 pages less.