callista’s Reviews > The Goldfinch > Status Update

How someone who’s never read a classic thinks a classic would read (long, unimportant descriptions that ruin the pacing of the story instead of being insightful. I get why it’s 700 pages now.) I feel terrible because I REALLLLY want to love this book (it’s 700 pages) but this is the least impressive Pulitzer winner I’ve read… sorry Tartt fans. Hopefully my opinion changes by the end HAHA (2)

Take a shot every time Theo says something along the lines of “I’ll never forget” or “burned into my memory”: like yeah I figured since you’re describing it in perfect detail a decade later. Her prose is the inspiration for every wannabe writer in my generation, so a lot of her personal flourishes (lists, run-on-sentences, ample parenthesis, lol) have been soiled for me. Just sooo contemporary. (1)