Donna Tarte is basically unreadable

Damn spell check from my phone

TARTT.

TARTT.

TARTT.

I have kind of the opposite view: her writing is like Ayn Rand's. Simple, easy reading and plots. But not great literature at all.

I loved “The Secret History” when it came out, but a re-read made me roll my eyes and I had to stop. That doesn’t happen with Margaret Atwood or Vladimir Nabokov.

All I remember about The Secret History is that they smoked CONSTANTLY. And he slept in an attic in winter without heat.

The biggest issue I had with the Goldfinch is she couldn't figure out when it was set.

As in there were some scenes where the characters had iPhones and access to the internet and texted each other and then it was the next day and the internet hadn't been invented yet and they were at a loss to figure out where a certain restaurant was located.

And then there was the character who any gay man recognized was gay but she basically made him asexual.

The typo is understandable, OP. You were trying to rush to press your Donna Tartt thread before the rest of us.

I liked her look a lot better before she went full Nosferatu or Jodie Foster or whatever she's gone for.

[quote] But no one with any real taste in literature can even finish The Goldfinch.

Oh my goodness gracious, we seem to be in the presence of Petronius... appointed [italic]Arbiter[/italic] of the entire [italic]Roman Empire![/italic]