Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Fiction, College students, Teacher-student relationships, Classicists
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.
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Bleak, intimate, contemplative and meticulous.
19 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs.
We read them all: the case for is amara.reads's, the case against is yuki.reads's. Marked below.
Overlong in the middle and I did not care.(1 spoiler sentence hidden; tap to read)
Tartt writes sentences like a person who has read Greek and wants you to know. It is a great pleasure and a slightly lesser book than its reputation.
A few lines from each review; the whole review is on the critic's site. Not part of Taste Buds's numbers.
Data provided by The New York Times.
On Open Library, 152 have read it and 1,768 want to.
“DOES SUCH a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”
Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. Her first novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her novel The Goldfinch.
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is this Donna Tartt's best work?”
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“Is The Secret History too earnest?”
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“Would a little humor have helped?”
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