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is it good?

>> No.22872403

>>22872402
Yes it's good, fuck off

>> No.22872406

>>22872402
was gonna post the same question. At this point im not sure if it is normie shit or so good that normies cant help but enjoy it too

>> No.22872419

>>22872402
it would have been forgotten if it was written by a man

>> No.22872433

>>22872402
I like it quite a bit but it's flawed

>> No.22872434

>>22872402
It's pretty comfy Harry Potter fanfiction. It gets the 'start with Greeks' meme alright. It gets lost at the ending somehow.

>> No.22872533

>>22872402
No

>> No.22872593

>>22872406
It's popular on tiktok and tumblr because it describes a lavish and elegant classical arts education that no longer exists because millennials decided to make colleges more inclusive.

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>>22872593
>Millenials decided
No

>> No.22872693

>>22872402
Take the first third of Brideshead Revisited, stretch it out to a full novel, and tack on a murder mystery plot. It's fine and fun. Is it good? Well, as literature, not really, but as a diversion it is pleasant.

>> No.22872716

>>22872402
It's great. Super well structured character focused mystery.

>> No.22872721

>>22872402
it seems ahead of its time - like really made for people to show it off on social media.. but it seems preposterous

>> No.22872758

Yeah it passes the physiognomy test so it's a fine book.

>> No.22872793

great self-insert book

>> No.22872884

No the narrative is completely unbelievable and self indulgent

>> No.22872994
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The Secret History, and the Dark Academia aesthetic associated therewith, is an ode to a romanticized past. Where beauty, knowledge, and refinement were pursued for their own sake. It rejects the commodification of learning and culture. It is gothic and melancholy because it sees no hope to achieve its own ends, that we as a society should rediscover the joys of simply learning and creating.

Doo doo fart.

>> No.22872999 [SPOILER] 

>>22872402
>women writes book
>it's about either men raping women or homosexuality

>> No.22873023

>>22872402
It's great. Super atmospheric.

>> No.22873029

>>22872999
4chan denizen makes post about book he hasn't read. Post has nothing do to with said book.

>> No.22873055

>>22872402
she's rather pretty. are you people going to just ignore that?

>> No.22873064

>>22873055
I really like her accent

>> No.22873338

>>22872664
yes, it was millennials who enabled jews and the coomsoom culture

>> No.22873820

I just started reading it and as of the end of the first chapter I find the setting and all of these characters unrelentingly irritating.

>> No.22873824

>>22873338
Jews did not get their power in 2000 you gay retard

>> No.22873972

>>22873338
Because boomers and gen x were all based and redpilled, right?

>> No.22873979

>>22872402
She is

>> No.22873992

>>22872402
The first half is mildly interesting, the second half is not at all. It is very self-indulgent and affected. It is still miles ahead of many other popular books

>> No.22875096

>>22872402
>>22872716
This. Ignore the meme answers.

>> No.22875107

>>22872434
Bunny, a second or third years classics major, at one point towards the beginning of the book asks if a noun is aorist

>> No.22875139

>>22873992
Pretty much this: the first half scratches that odd itch of wanting a self-insert nerd/outcast protagonist, at an elite classical liberal arts college in a remote/rural region, with a classical/transcendental studies backdrop, wanting to join an equally elite, blue blood student group that turns out to be his gateway to a murder. The second half is so painfully boring and mundane, once the details and motivations are revealed halfway through the book, that I dropped it once it became uninteresting, only to pick it back up and struggle to complete it because I just couldn’t give a damn.
My advise to OP or anyone wanting to read this book: read the first half, get as far as you like into the second half, and then be content with wherever you left off, confident that you didn’t miss much really.
I guess I should appreciate the fact that Tartt does away with all the pretension and pomp of the group and the academic vibe once shit gets real, but it just becomes so empty that it becomes unsatisfying. Like a slasher flick with no real stakes. If you want a good companion to this, read Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics. She apes Secret History so much it almost becomes a parody.

>> No.22875342

>>22872593
If you look for a Bret Easton Ellis novel at the local library, say, Less Than Zero you will find multiple copies. If you do the same for The Secret History you will be number 3 or 4 on the waiting list. Something to be said for that.