So Let Mercy Come.
Jan. 20th, 2018 04:56 pmTHE BOOKENING TITLE #15: The Secret History, Donna Tartt.
I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.
A little before Christmas, I visited![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
th_esaurus, who mentioned that she'd requested The Secret History for Yuletide.
Riona: Oh, yes, that's the book about the group of students who do a murder, isn't it?
RD: They have an orgy and then do a murder, and then—
Riona: RD. Where is this book?
RD: What?
Riona: Where is this book? Do you have it here? You have to lend me this book.
I have now finished The Secret History! I absolutely loved it. I loved it before I'd finished the first chapter. It feels like it could have been cut down a little, but there's a strange beauty to the writing, and it contains a good number of the things I most love in fiction: people making terrible decisions, people being haunted by those terrible decisions, tight-knit groups of people where everyone's a little in love with everyone else.
Below the cut are some notes I made in the process of reading!
( Notes on The Secret History. )
There were so many points in this book where I thought, You know, if this were a fic I was writing, this is the self-indulgent thing I'd do here, and then that was exactly what happened. Donna Tartt knows exactly what I want out of fiction! New favourite book?
I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.
A little before Christmas, I visited
th_esaurus, who mentioned that she'd requested The Secret History for Yuletide.Riona: Oh, yes, that's the book about the group of students who do a murder, isn't it?
RD: They have an orgy and then do a murder, and then—
Riona: RD. Where is this book?
RD: What?
Riona: Where is this book? Do you have it here? You have to lend me this book.
I have now finished The Secret History! I absolutely loved it. I loved it before I'd finished the first chapter. It feels like it could have been cut down a little, but there's a strange beauty to the writing, and it contains a good number of the things I most love in fiction: people making terrible decisions, people being haunted by those terrible decisions, tight-knit groups of people where everyone's a little in love with everyone else.
Below the cut are some notes I made in the process of reading!
( Notes on The Secret History. )
There were so many points in this book where I thought, You know, if this were a fic I was writing, this is the self-indulgent thing I'd do here, and then that was exactly what happened. Donna Tartt knows exactly what I want out of fiction! New favourite book?
