![]() ![]() ![]() How can one person know so much? Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Most of all the brilliant mind that conceived of and executed this book. I give it the highest marks-over the top-for its brilliant characterization its brilliant sense of place (Manhattan, Las Vegas, Amsterdam) its brilliant plot (quite Dickensian, with one damn thing right after another!) its brilliant description. ![]() Why is it so great? You’re entitled to ask. If you’re not that interested in highly elaborate (but accessible) discussions of art, furniture restoration, what it feels like to be high or in love, to be terrorized, to be saved, to be lost, to be found, to be good, to be bad, to be human–go elsewhere.īut if you want to have a reading experience that may make you wonder if you’ll ever want to read another novel, I recommend The Goldfinch. If you like a clean, simple, cut-to-the-chase style, Finch is not for you. In addition, it’s “wordy.” Full of fulsome descriptions. So if you’re not up for the long haul, step aside But after Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, I suspect it will be a long time before I read another novel that is as brilliant and beautiful as this one. He told me about Rich Bass’s blurb on the back cover of Cold Mountain when it came out: “It seems possible to never want to read another book, so wonderful is this one.” ![]() A friend and I were talking about hyperbole in book blurbs and reviews the other day (I confess I don’t mind a little hyperbole concerning my books). ![]()
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