![]() As Richard slowly gets to know his new friends, he also starts suspecting something is definitely wrong with their weekend getaways, their excess drinking and their suspicious behaviours at night. A group of rich, young people who dress cool and spend their afternoons discussing the sublime? Yes, defiintely cool. In Hampden, he’s quickly seduced by professor Julian Morrow and his reduced group of students, some kind of elitist sect in which all study hours are devoted to classic Greek. The Secret History tells the story of Richard, a California-born 20-year-old who gets accepted into Hampden, a prestigious college in Vermont, to study Classics. Donna Tartt’s novel is both bewitching and gripping, chilling and endearing, paced masterfully, a perfect balance between contemplation and action, narrative and dialogue. I spent many a sleepless night reading The Secret History and thinking about it sometimes, after hours of reading and what felt like a thousand pages, I would come out of a daze to find out I had read less than fifty. It wasn’t however, because it was boring or tedious, it was just because this is one of those books you want to savour slowly, taking in every word, every sentence. It took me almost three weeks to read this one, which is extremely rare for me. One of the reviews on the back of the book says, “a thriller for thinking people”, which I took as a challenge. I’ve heard many people praise it and as many hate it, which really made me want to read it. ![]() The Secret Historyby Donna Tartt has been on my radar for a while now. ![]()
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