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Why start with the classics when you can start with the Tartt?

>> No.15129156

OP here, I genuinely like Donna Tartt books and I don't care how much you guys hate her. No book captures the liberal arts college experience as well as The Secret History.

From best to worst her books are:

1. The Secret History
2. The Little Friend
3. The Goldfinch

>> No.15129171

>>15129156
>the liberal arts college experience

Getting heavily in debt in order to pretend to have learned things which any ape can learn at home?

>> No.15129177

>>15129156
Based.
The secret history got me back into reading after years of not being able to focus on a book

>> No.15129193

>>15129171
My parents paid for it all so I didn't give a shit

>> No.15129198

>>15129193
What did you learn from it? Nothing.

>> No.15129223

>>15129156
>the liberal arts college experience
Trying to get pussy and failing for 4 years while you shitpost on /lit/ while developing a benzo addiction?

>> No.15129227

>>15129193
based lol

>> No.15129296

>>15129156
i also love donna tartt and the secret history the most. i did not read the little friend, but i enjoyed the goldfinch a lot. i thought the movie was boring

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>> No.15129326

>>15129321
wow, she is pretty. like selma blair + christina applegate

>> No.15129344

>>15129147
Long time no see, Tarttanon.

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>> No.15129506

>>15129147

Through some bizarre inertia of events I ended up listening to someone read The Secret History on twitch for the past month and it confirmed my suspicion that fiction is moronic. Little to no description of Subjective states and extremely primitive ones at that, despite the first person narrative, diarrhetic abundance of irrelevant Phenomenal impressions. Why does it matter that it snowed when they killed Bunny? Why does it matter that it was overcast at the funeral? No one cares. Even Anglo Philosophy, i.e. shitty Phenomenology, is more humane.

>> No.15129857

>>15129506
Enjoy your philosophy anon

>> No.15129945

>>15129223
Sound nice t.b.h I wish my early studies where like this.

>> No.15129954

>>15129857

I am, reading it from one straight vertical edge of my rectangular and surprisingly heavy liquid crystal electrical monitor with a hard plastic case to the other likewise straight edge, also vertical, I thought, my looking gaze descending as it visually sees the rows of words that are written in the transcribed, sometimes clumsily scanned by some no doubt carelessly rambunctious and young-femural bicepsed high school-aged and serendipitously small towned colorfully whistling bo, from the high top edge that forms the upper terminus of the monitor that I have always had and used oft for reading off of it as I have done many times over my life that I am living, down to the titanic breaking in halfingly horrifying bottom lower edge where, I thought, my monitor would have to end though I seldom think about this arborescent spring dew-ladened fact as I rendez-vous with the top of the hard plastic old friend monitor, as I've always done, continuing ichthyologically to peruse my written in ones and perhaps too many zeroes, for my sobbing heart, wordy letter-texts.

>> No.15129970

>>15129506
>being such a psychology cuck
You aren't ready for anything written before 1530 apparently.
The snow is an important plot point because it means Bunny was assumed lost and searched for a long time, with extensive investigations that took a toll on the protagonists. Without the snow his body would have been found out easily and it would have ended quickly as a simple hiking incident.

I don't even like the Secret History that much, but this is explicitly spelled out in the book by the way, so not only is your aesthetic perspective narrow, you have trouble processing simple information.

>> No.15129998

>>15129970

This is conjecture, backwardly-reasoned from faulty material. Sad.

>> No.15130387

>>15129193
That's fucking right. They built their lives around bullshit ideas like "sending our kids to college so they can have a bright future," so what's the fucking point of upsetting them by trying to save them from wasting their money? They want to waste that money, they're happier doing it. What's the point of saving their money if they hate it?

>> No.15130403

>>15129998
>but this is explicitly spelled out in the book by the way
SAD

>> No.15130413

The Secret History was great I've read it like three times over my life.

The Goldfinch was such a disappointment I couldn't even finish it. The characters were mostly shallow stereotypes. There's a meth-head trailer park hillbilly, a snake handling preacher, and a bunch of other stupid shit like that. The style is very changed too.

>> No.15130450

>>15130413
secret history has shallow stock characters as well. i seriously do not understand why people rate it, other than out of ”comfiness”. YA-/mystery-tier plot and utilitarian prose, and a tenuous connection to the classics at best

>> No.15130463

>>15130450

>utilitarian prose

Prose that aims to do the greatest good for the greatest number of people?

>> No.15130509

>>15129193
Based

>> No.15130597

>>15130509
my parents said they're down to send me to continental philosophy grad school, how can I say no? in this economy?

>> No.15130734

>>15129147
Doesn't her most famous book literally rely on awreness of the classical period of history

>> No.15130771

>>15130734
no, it’s just a thin veneer of sophistication

>> No.15131033

>>15130734
The only classics knowledge that would help before reading would be The Bacchae

>> No.15131060

>>15130597
If the school isn't paying you to attend, you're getting scammed.

>> No.15131297

>>15129970
>protagonists
no such thing. there can only be one protagonist.

>> No.15131345

>>15130734
if you are 15 (as in 15 in the current year, rather than 15 in the days that one might get a real classical education) then that might appear to be true

>> No.15131359

>>15130734
how's she so vastly overrated ?
It's muh strong whamen power, isn't it?