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Mar 07, 2020eusebius rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I've read it three times. The first time on publication, a few years after I graduated from university where I'd been a classics major. If you ask how young people can get so obsessed with Greek and Roman culture to the point where they reenact a scene from The Bacchae, just remember youth is the age of greatest enthusiasm for ideas. Look at the Society for Creative Anachronism, if it still exists (there was a chapter on my campus). I still find Tartt's writing to be enchanting, and I don't mind the pages devoted to the hero's dorm mates who don't advance the story but who possess a certain wacky charm.