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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Readers say *The Goldfinch* is beautifully written with rich detail, complex characters, and immersive storytelling, praised for its lyrical prose and...
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.
I was very conflicted about this book. There were parts that I enjoyed reading, and other parts that I very much struggled to get through. Some of the characters I really liked and enjoyed learning about them, but others I kept thinking 'why are they even in this story'. I do not believe I have ever struggled as much as I did to finish this book.
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