the secret history. donna tartt (89)

i saved donna tartt's "the secret history" for the winter. flavorpill recommended i read it in the winter and as we know, flavorpill says and i try to do. it sounds silly but if i had a real winter like the east coast, it would have been the perfect setting for reading "the secret history". though those random days of serious coldest the last couple of weeks paralleled the weather in the book.

i read "the secret history" because it was on flavorpill's list of 30 to read before 30, and though i enjoyed it, i'm not sure why it made that list. it wasn't life changing, though it was a good story. furthermore, i think it would be a good story regardless of one's age. it didn't shine any light or offer any insight on the undergraduate experience.  but i must add it made me grateful that the worse of my college friends were druggies and not murderers.

what?  a murder?!?! yes! there is a murder but i am not going to spoil it for anyone because i want you to read it. i was surprise by how much i enjoyed this book, because i am not one for murder mysteries or suspense.  however "the secret history" is very well written and had so many random twists and turns that i was on the edge of my seat at times. it was a serious page turner and toward the end i couldn't put it down.

and though i am not a fan of the book turned movie reality of hollywood. the whole time i was reading, i kept thinking, this needs to be a movie!!! i googled and it turns out that gwyneth paltrow and her brother bought the rights to it but the movie never happen. but it seriously needs/needed to. it's would have been the perfect brat pack vehicle. it was like a darker breakfast club but instead of detention, prison would have been where they served their time. but seriously such a good book, i recommend you all check it out. though don't feel pressured that you need to read it before 30.

also sorry i don't go into any kind of detail or review for this.  but if you read it and want to discusses it, message me and we can.

oh and one side note, for me, julian never read as sincere.

okay, maybe two, at first i was confused because since they were studying greek and on the east coast, i kept putting them back in the 1930's like a "this side of paradise" but finally fit them into a more "less than zero"/ "rules of attraction" (though i have never read either of them.)

want to say more but won't. but friends read it so we can discuss!