NP Donna Tartt review / Pynchon mention

[Bekah]

I've read her two priors.  The Secret History was excellent, intelligent with just the right challenge,  a campus scenario with lots of 

Page 5:  
"Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs."

The Little Friend was just a kind of spooky neighborhood thing - kind of creepy and without the complexity of the themes which stood out in The Secret History -  I was soooo disappointed.  

I'll be getting The Goldfinch probably the week it comes out -  Oct. 22 - .

Bekah

On Oct 12, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't read anything by Tartt. Nothing so popular ever much crosses
> my radar. I she as good as her reputation?
> http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2013/oct/13/donna-tartt-quiet-american-profile
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