chai ♡’s review of The Goldfinch > Likes and Comments

I'll wait on your review! Thinking about starting this one, but it's too long for a wild guess lol

Omg I’m so excited for your review of this gay masterpiece.

Aren’t we all?

excited to see what you think. this one can be controversial for people.

Why is this so accurate

This one is sooooooo good.

Managing to read the book before the movie comes out is a skill I struggle with but you know what we're worth it

Nathália wrote: "I'll wait on your review! Thinking about starting this one, but it's too long for a wild guess lol"

dslkhfdk that's very valid! it's been gathering dust on my shelf for months and the movie trailer was all the motivation I needed

J wrote: "Omg I’m so excited for your review of this gay masterpiece."

I AM HYPED NOW THAT U CALLED IT A GAY MASTERPIECE (also I think Francis from TSH plays a cameo role here and I LOVE HIM so I'm lowkey freaking out)

pls read it and scream about the passage on pg 353 w me, u’ll know the one. i’ll tattoo those words in my heart if i can. i think the gay energy in this book is even more chaotic than TSH, and it’s not bc Francis, my messy gay child is in it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Brittany (Lady Red) wrote: "Aren’t we all?"

a universal dilemma

adderley wrote: "excited to see what you think. this one can be controversial for people."

oohh you have my attention 👀👀🔍🔍👀👀🔍

Kacy❁ wrote: "Why is this so accurate"

THE STRUGGLE TRANSCENDS BORDERS 😩😩🤧

That's productive. You can never betray a book by watching the movie first (says someone who's done it)

Mikaela wrote: "This one is sooooooo good."

i'm very excited!!!

http.pug wrote: "Managing to read the book before the movie comes out is a skill I struggle with but you know what we're worth it"

oof I felt this

I'm still proud of the fact that I have read Game of Thrones but haven't seen a single episode of the series. Oh the accomplishment!

Lol me though!!!!
I’m super proud to say I’ve read all books before watching the movie.....
Well except for twilight and like a couple other ones !!!

sameee

One one my absolute favorites! One word: BORIS!

there‘s a movie????

e ll a wrote: "pls read it and scream about the passage on pg 353 w me, u’ll know the one. i’ll tattoo those words in my heart if i can. i think the gay energy in this book is even more chaotic than TSH, and it’s..."

FRANCIS IS WHAT NOW

Anj (seaweed books) wrote: "That's productive. You can never betray a book by watching the movie first (says someone who's done it)"

I can't escape the sense of betrayal when I forgo the book to watch the movie first fdjkghj

Hiba wrote: "I'm still proud of the fact that I have read Game of Thrones but haven't seen a single episode of the series. Oh the accomplishment!"

damn. stronger than the us marine

Satin wrote: "Lol me though!!!!
I’m super proud to say I’ve read all books before watching the movie.....
Well except for twilight and like a couple other ones !!!"

BRAVO!

Ohhh, I cannot wait for this movie! Ansel Elgort FTW!

Gracie (MARVELousBooks) wrote: "sameee"

right!!!

K.A. wrote: "One one my absolute favorites! One word: BORIS!"

ooh haven't met them yet but I AM EXCITED

Nina 321 wrote: "there‘s a movie????"

Yes! It's coming out in September, I think.

Bethany wrote: "Ohhh, I cannot wait for this movie! Ansel Elgort FTW!"

the trailer looks really good!!!

Can I just say that your updates and reviews are a whole ass mood

Hard same

What did you think about this book? Is it worth reading?

Well, from what I've heard you didn't need to hurry, because the movie sold about 20 tickets and was gone before most of us knew it was out.

100%. The Secret history was so much better.

I don't know that Theo is gay. He seems more like an adolescent who "goes through a phase," like the GUCs and BUCs we knew in college. (Gay until commencement, bisexual until commencement). In the third part of the book, in which Theo kinda sort grows up he mentions having sex with several women, none of whom he cares about even enough to tell us their names, but his loveless sex life seems to be hetero. Then he somehow ends up engaged to Kitsey, a daughter of the family that took him in for awhile after his mother's death, but why she wants to marry Theo or why her family approves is utterly beyond me. We learn that she's marrying him as a beard for her relationship with someone else who's totally unacceptable to her family, but why is the drugged out, underachieving Theo, with no inherited money or social status, any better? Go figure. Meanwhile, Theo continues to have a chaste, unrequited crush on Pippa, who definitely does not want him. When Boris comes back into Theo's life, the two of them are too busy getting deeper and deeper into dangerous messes in the art underworld to have much in the way of a sexual relationship, especially after Boris runs off with the painting and Theo's passport and abandons him in an Amsterdam hotel.

i feel seen by this! after finishing the goldfinch i you yelled out my TSH copy — i didn’t hate the goldfinch, but it just can’t compare when you love TSH so much

I’m about 40% into the audiobook and that has been my exact thought lol. I did love The Goldfinch movie even though it bombed

oh I FEEL this

How succinctly you captured my very own thoughts!!

Just read this review and totally agree! The goldfinch felt like a reading through a very long stress dream.

i didn't enjoy the secret history, but now i really want to try this one lol