Flashes of The Secret History: this book is populated by improbably erudite children who drink ludicrously — also, murder! It doesn't rise to the spellbinding beauty of Tartt's, but it's fun and funny and worth a read.
Truly pushing the bounds of unlikeable characters. The last page is stunning.
It's not cool to read self-help books and I'm generally averse to the genre, but this is a helpful book that was recommended to me before I start grad school. It has some nice insights and tips for people who have, for whatever reason, learned to approach even basic tasks by spiraling into perfectionism-induced self-flagellation and paralysis. You know, those other people, those lame self-help book-reading types.
If this book were one hundred pages shorter and contained twenty fewer characters, I could have been down. As it stands – woof. There were so many (needless!) references to the names of different characters and locations that at times, I felt I was in the word problem section of the Swedish SATs.
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