The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick
A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times
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I wasn't a huge fan of this. It felt like it took me forever to finish and I just wasn't that interested in the characters.
A Dark Academia staple. Do you remember reading Harry Potter as a kid and just wanted so badly to be apart of Hogwarts? It felt like that. I never wanted this book to end because I loved just living in their atmosphere.
The dynamics of the characters and they change and develop...how some are included and others secretly excluded, it's a complicated dynamic that makes this book so enticing.
took me until pg 80 to get into but as a bennington kid i loved, nostalgic, mysterious, too cool for school, took me someplace different for a while
I like to call this book "just wait, it gets worse"
a fantastic book about a whole bunch of horrible people
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