secret history,,,Donna tarrt, read it? What dis you think?

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Im plowing on.

is it worth continuing?

Fabulous, loved it. One of the best novels I've ever read.

oh ok, will persevere.

absolutely fab. love it. must hunt out my copy and re-read (again...)

yep, i seem to remember a ploughing on bit but it picks up.

But I was hooked from page 1, so it wasn't ever a question of needing to plough on - I couldn't put it down! I read it sitting on my kid brother's outside staircase over a couple of very hot days in Bologna, Italy - completely out of keeping with most of the weather in the book.

Fantastic. Never felt like was ploughing on though.

LOved it, I found the first 30 pages or so a struggle but after that was hooked, however others who read it for our book group were not taken by it.

I read it years ago and from what i remember it took a while to get going, but was a great and memorable read.

I loved the first 200 pages. Then got bored.

im kinda "plowing", not a great deal is keeping my attention.

got to the confession of the murder so far.

I came on this thread to say I thought it was tosh, one of those "Et in Arcadia ego (but not you, dear uninitiated reader, whose only conceivable entrée is this book which I have been courteous enough to pen for you)" fantasies like Brideshead and Alan Hollinghurst.

... but then I saw SixSpot loved it, and have experienced seismic sense of doubt in own judgment.

Very good indeed.

I loved it. I think it did take me a bit of time to get into it, but I loved it.

I loved it. Have recommended it loads of times to people. DH hated it, though.

I loved it!!
Teh Little Friend was a big disappointment.

Loved it (but it's about 15 years since I read it so can remember next to nothing about it).

I still remember the first page for some reason, Richard's summer job in a Boca Raton book shop. I want to read it again now.

I was hooked from the first word, so if you say you're ploughing through it........ maybe give up, because it's not as though it suddenly changes style or gets better (to my memory anyway)

It's superb. She's written nothing as good since, thought.

I also didn't feel it required ploughing; I really loved it from the outset. I first read it around 15 years ago, and then re-read about 5 years later. Stick with it.

Wasn't so keen on The Little Friend though, and abandoned it fairly quickly; maybe I'll give it another chance this year.

another one who was hooked from the first word.

and again, I hated the Little Friend. I might try that again... maybe I'll jsut get rid - I haven't been inspired to pick it up in years, after all

I hate hate hate pretentious crap, but I absolutely loved it.

Only book that's ever made me gasp out loud (the bit with the hotel headed notepaper, if anyone recalls.)

It did take me a while to get in to.

I read it when I was at uni studying the politics and had to do greek philosophers - the whole Dionysus connection had me hooked was a long time ago - hope am remembering the book correctly!

I don't remember the Little Friend, except to remember I didn't like it. I did read it all the way through.