I think this is fitting, because her novel reads as a VASTLY inferior Rules of Attraction. In her opening pages, the author partially dedicates the novel to Brett Easton Ellis. I knew things were turning sour when, after each new, forgettable little plot point or character fault was revealed, i found myself thinking "who fucking cares?" What remains is a half-baked mish mash of college drama and angst from a group of twenty somethings that all seem capable of nothing but becoming increasingly unlikable as the story (can you even call it that?) progresses. And utterly stagnates around 40% of the way through. Justinian and Chosroes become, in effect, interchangeable as models of oriental despotism.' Nonetheless, Procopius does not lay everything out in the 'unofficial' history, either. Instead, it covers some mysterious, treacherous territory. Another ruse employed in the History of the Wars is to take charges levelled at Justinian in the Secret History and project them onto the Persian Shah Chosroes (Khusro). No spoilers here, but the introduction to our cast of characters has boundless potential that really could have gone anywhere. I will give it kudos for stylish, and at times beautiful writing. The only way i can fathom people actually liking it is if they're as pretentious as this author clearly was upon the time of writing. About halfway through i had to start skimming, sometimes reading only the first few words of each paragraph.ĭude. Just finished reading "The Secret History" today by Donna Tartt.
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