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The Secret History
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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 TimesShow more
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Didn't read the very end bc I just stopped caring. I could pretty well guess what happened from the beginning, however the details weren't even close to believable. There characters didn't seem terribly real, though terribly awful people. The overall story seemed to lack point and I didn't appreciate the reinforcement of the viewpoint that money buys immunity. Reviews were fabulous and I had high hopes, but can't give it more than one star.
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.
A dark coming-of-age tale told entirely in one character's voice. In the beginning, I had a difficult time getting into this story. I was on the verge of tossing it aside when I finally was pulled in. It's told retrospectively, and at times it felt like a Film Noir from the '40s.
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