Just finished The Secret History, what’s the consensus here?
>>25637214A woman wrote a decent book? Oh a fleet of male professors edited it over years and years for her...
>>25637218>a fleet of male professorsMost authors let friends and professionals revise and edit their books before publication. This is not peculiar to women authors
>>25637231I love these little fantasies that pop up on lit
>>25637214It's all right. Nothing to get excited about.
>>25637214Dropped it in the second chapter because of all the cringe
>>25637261Those are (almost) all fantastic thoughhh
>>25637398no need to respond to this bait image that gets posted almost every day. The range in quality between Moshfegh and Woolf is crazy, also Dazai isn't even a woman lol
>>25637214>Just finished The Secret History, what’s the consensus here?Donna Tartt's best work.
>>25637390>filtered
>>25637408I've been offline for a while, thanks for keeping me posted bud
>>25637214It was all right. I was expecting it to be darker, weirder and more pretentious, given the renown, but I guess the point was that everyone was larping and over their heads.
>>25637214Henry, Charles and Frances all banged Camilla and they didn't invite Richard to the bacchanalia. They probably ran a train on her. No poontang for Richard. The end.
>>25637214Mostly a piece of garbage, but Bunny is a brilliant character and the book would have been a lot better if it had been mostly about his autistic adventures.
>>25637771nta but I was filtered before I was even born.
>>25637398Come on, nigga. Like a third are fantastic, a third ehhh, and a third genuinely garbage (Joan Didion is here)
>>25637390idk how I kept going but i did and it was a boring pretentious book It should have been 200 pages
>>25637767If that’s her best book then she is a terrible author
>>25640324Bunny wasn’t invited either
Charles wasn’t hard enough with Camilla
I liked the whole schools reaction to Bunny's death and the group going along with it. My senior year of high-school we had 3 suicides. All male. You know how many women who had never given these guys the light of day ended up saying for each of them, "nobody really knows this, but X and I were actually very close..." The deaths of these kids just turned into attention farming by foids. So I thought it was interesting in the book. Also our protagonist is entirely and utterly fucked left to his own devices. He's thrown into this world of this small group of Greek enthusiasts and takes no charge of any situation whatsoever. They (mostly Henry) are in complete control of him and dont even invite him to the thing where they turned into deer or whatever. The one time they leave him alone and Henry has to come save him because he's going to die in the cold of Vermont. I enjoyed it. Its been several years but I still think about it from time to time.
>heel friend was more reasonable than not with the incestuous cult murder friend group and based on someone that mogged Tartt in collegeCrime investigation and coverup logistics were sloppy narratively. Bret Easton Ellis' developmental editing was good. The Professor is/was a Boomer archetype and a familiar trope. It's a very strong first novel with some flaws, and decent prose.
>>25637261Why is No Longer Human here,
>>25637214Changed my life. Changed how I dress.
>>25641853You gotta be kidding meIm all in about immersion in novels but she did not do a successful job of it. I was confused afterwards from all of these “dark academia” videos about how it made them feel because she kept telling us how great Richard rest was in that summer house but didn’t present it just flashback and Richard saying he had a “great time”
>>25641849>based on someone that mogged Tartt in collegehow can a man mog her? which character do you mean? also I know more info about this any articles? also I noticed how Henry was basically a supernatural entity in this book in the way she wrote him, he had supernatural strength stayed alive 12 hours “which shocked all the doctors first tike ever!!!” and beat up a gang member with chains and muscle yet he have headaches and head pain that should make him weak worst read of 2026 for me
>>25642004Not really in the way of "dark academia" videos. I just mean now I wear tweed jackets, trousers, oxfords, oxford shirts, overcoats, ties, cardigans, etc., whereas I used to wear jeans.
>>25642011>he had supernatural strength stayed alive 12 hoursPeople stay in coma for years. I was more curious about how a gun can shot twice, but maybe that’s possible too, or maybe it was misfire or something.
>>25642021I wish I was that unsloppy :/
Harry Potter for art hoes.There's a lot of discourse about "women written by men" but equally funny are "men written by women".You can almost sense the reasons why single mothers cannot raise a son, from how female authors consistently mis-write male characters.The book wasn't bad though but it also felt like it wasted my time. Genre fiction with an attempt at literary semblance but couldn't quite pull off either.
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>>25637214she was so hot
>>25642011Apparently you are not allowed to criticize it
>>25640627Tell me you've never read any of her work without telling me you've never read any of her work.
It’s good to know I’m not part of the /lit/ hivemind because I love this book
>>25643195>not noticing women or menlolyeah i realized this retarded BITCH kept bringing up gay shit about the protagonist's friends, men never think about their friends in this way"my good friend turned his head 10 degrees to the left, is he... LE GAY potentially? because thats totally valid! and bunny did a heckin homophobe!"she really sucks at writing men.>>25643835u are a part of the reddit hivemind however
>>25642060im being serious he kept his whore sister in checkthen after his grip weakens she takes a sociopath as a sugar daddy then later when the sociopath say he plan to kidnap her Twin brother and keep him drigged just like he did in the hospital giving drinks so he can never recover, she react like he told her the weather is going to be inconvenient tonight also Charles “abuse” was done when he was drunk she didn’t try to make him stop all she could think about is whoring herself out instead of her twin brother yes he wasn’t hard enough on this whore
>>25643195she’s a pretentious author that think she’s the next Tolkien all her books could be cut in half they are over bloated under-edited word salad
>>25643835Idk, I used to be very infatuated with her writing and overall personal brand, but now it kinda lost a whole lot of it’s charm. I was probably putting her on too big of a pedestal.
In addition to >>25644763 I was looking forward to get The Little Friend this year, but I’m not sure if I care anymore.
