The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

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 :'(

I was asking myself why I am reading this book so many times. I wanted to stop. It's such a long and not very easy read. Story follows little boy who loses his mom and have to move across the country to live with his dad. It follows him over the years. In the end I'm glad I read it. Definitely worth the time and effort.

I just finished the goldfinch. It was really well written, great characters, Boris was awesome. Potter's inability to see or understand the friendship was very interesting as was their incredible drug dependency. Personally I loved the talk of the woodworking; I learned a lot from that and it was fascinating.

Furthermore, I really enjoyed how the story really grew and developed. By-in-large, it felt complete though

A tremendous work - truly. Donna Tartt is extremely talented. I learned a great deal about the art work and the business of art - and also how deeply art work affects people - how some of our great works are indeed timeless and its fascinating to think that works created so many years ago can have such an impact hundreds of years later. Also very interesting to contemplate Theo's view on life - rather dark and not overly optimistic but true. Life is such a random string of events and I kept waiting for him to stop obsessing over this but he can't. Many people can't accept the life they have inherited. Such great character descriptions. You just love and hate Boris, don't you? Super interesting at the end to compare and contrast Theo and Boris' views on life and happiness or lack thereof. I thoroughly enjoyed this and marveled at the skill it required to write it.

Honestly, I have mixed feelings towards this book. For the first few chapters, I just loved it so much and thought It'll surely end up in my 4-star list if the quality is consistent, even after Theo went to Vegas his experiences with loneliness and guilt feeling about the painting and his mother seems very intriguing even though I hated the side characters like Boris, Theo's father and his father. But after the time skip Theo's lamenting about Pippa was so irritating to read oof, Theo's failures in his personal life and constant listless actions seemed so boring smh. Then Boris's ridiculous prank with The painting put cheery on top of my annoyance, the plot twist seemed so much force. (hide spoiler)]
So my overall rating is 3.75/3.5 ⭐ out of 5