The Secret History ~ Donna Tartt
"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation...."
It's a thriller, a page-turner, whatever. It's Tartt's flawlessly narrated first novel, and it's so absorbing. It's about six college students in New England who are so immersed in their studies of ancient Greek classics that they don't even know man has walked on the moon, and think that the four humors are fundamentals of medicine. Every now and then, they stumble into the present, and that's fun for the reader, who becomes as cloistered as the characters. I'm happy if a book has either a perfect story or an engaging style, and this one has both. I'd recommend it to anybody.
It's a thriller, a page-turner, whatever. It's Tartt's flawlessly narrated first novel, and it's so absorbing. It's about six college students in New England who are so immersed in their studies of ancient Greek classics that they don't even know man has walked on the moon, and think that the four humors are fundamentals of medicine. Every now and then, they stumble into the present, and that's fun for the reader, who becomes as cloistered as the characters. I'm happy if a book has either a perfect story or an engaging style, and this one has both. I'd recommend it to anybody.