Tag: The Secret History
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TTT: My 10 Favorite Fictional Unlikable Characters
Alice in Wonderland, Donna Tartt, fiction, Geek Love, Kate Christensen, Katherine Dunn, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Margaret Atwood, Mikhail Bulgakov, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Oscar Wilde, Ottessa Moshfegh, The Epicure's Lament, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Master and Margarita, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Secret History, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, unlikable characterTop Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. For me, reading is all about the characters. I want them to be interesting. I want them to have chutzpah and gumption and a *teensy* bit of common sense. They need to develop, have interesting viewpoints, be flawed. So actually, I really like the normally…
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The food in Donna Tartt’s book is an interesting mixture of the decadent (roasted lamb, exotic mushrooms, souffles, foie gras) and the hopelessly mundane school cafeteria food and bad coffee. Food helps delineate separate worlds of influence and privilege. As the protagonist, Richard, is largely an outsider, he notices the discrepancies between the displays of…
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I find that it always takes me a while to get through Donna Tartt’s books, but that the effort is always worthwhile. Her writing is so intelligent, so tightly controlled, and you get drawn into this parallel universe where insane things can happen and seem quite rational. Her characters are flawed, interesting, and dynamic. She…
Allison Burris 