- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN-10: 0140295542
- ISBN-13: 978-0140295542
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,432,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Secret History is in some ways unclassifiable ... it is a murder mystery, but you know who did it ... it is a remake of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and yet completely different ... it is a novel about college students, but unlike any other you have read. A group of students of classical Greek at an elite college in Vermont spend way too much time together, and this is the chilling outcome.
I have owned eight copies of this book. Anyone I loan it to either keeps it or passes it on to someone who does! And I have re-read it over a dozen times, just to feel again the inexorable passage through the plot, the feeling of inevitability about it all, and the edge-of-your-seat suspense which permeates the whole novel.
I hear Ms Tartt has just completed her second novel, nine years after this one was released. It has a lot to live up to. If you have never read The Secret History, do so right now, before someone makes a terrible movie out of it!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having overlooked the sun-parched copy bought for 30 pence several years ago at a charity fete, I stumbled upon it by accident one November morning as I shifted a cupboard to let more of the sun into my garret. Serendipity! Although I am prone to hyperbole, this book surpasses most of the material I have read in some 30 years of adulthood. It would be stretching the English language to waffle on about how brilliantly written The Secret History is. I read it within two days and started it again a few hours later. This is unprecedented. It has all the appeal of a Classical drama. No crime novel comes close to it in style, suspense and literary expertise. Read it or you will miss out on the experience of a lifetime. Have I made my point?
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