Donna Tartt - Donna Tartt Questions
Question #1:
I have read 2001, etc. All the usual stuff ... I want something that can me stay up all night and read.
BTW: The best non-sci-fi book I have read: "The Secret Story" by Donna Tartt
Yeah Larry Niven is great
Isaac Asimov the man behind "I, Robot" - I will look into him. Thx
Question #2:
I spend a lot of time in bed and hospital and have been reading a lot to pass the time.
I will read most books and genres, although i do really like crime orientated books. I have read books by a wide variety of authors: CJ Sansom, Jodi Picoult, Donna Tartt, Bill Bryson, Tony Parsons, etc.
Does anyone know of a really good book or author worth looking up??
Hey i just wanted to say a massive thankyou to all of you, i have a great number of new authors and books to search out.
Also thanks to the many responses that also wished me well n to get better soon, that really means a lot . Many thanks X
Question #3:
I am going into English Lit. 2 and I am very shy. I hate to ask for help in person. Everyone considers me "smart" so no one ever offers help. Is there a web site or something I can find real people to help me and I could also help them? We are studying "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt. I mainly need help with grammar and things like that.
Question #4:
Where can I find professional reviews of Donna Tartt's book The Secret History? I see quotes of reviews from TIME and The New York Times on the jacket, but I can't find the full reviews anywhere. Does anyone have links to newspaper or magazine reviews of The Secret History?
Question #5:
Ive just finished reading Donna Tartt's the secret history and i loved it. I'm 18 on my way to uni and need a good easy to read book to take on holiday with me this summer. I really love anything to do with looking at people and their behaviour. Any suggestions?
Question #6:
So some of my favorite authors are the Bronte sisters, Ernest Hemingway, Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt. I'm looking for another book to read...not anything by these authors because I've read most of them. But some suggestions on similar work would be great!
Question #7:
my will-be highschool gave me a list of about 60 books to choose from for our summer reading. i narrowed it down to eleven, but i can't really pick. i want to make a good first impression on my teachers with out totally crapping myself trying to understand it. haha. if any of you have read one or more of the books below, please tell me whether you liked it or hated it or whatever. thanks in advance! :]
1. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
2. Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks
3. Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
4. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
5. Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
6. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
7. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
8. Regeneration - Pat Barker
9. Go Tell It On the Mountain - James Baldwin
10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
11. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Question #8:
i need help finding the genre of these books (genre as in fantasy, realistic fiction, mystery, historical fiction, science fiction, and so on)
hand of evil by J.A. jance
one day at a time by danielle steel
the choice by nicholas sparks
true believe by nicholas sparks
the lucky one by nicholas sparks
the little friend by donna tartt
moments of grace by neale donald walsh
thank you sooo much in advance (:
Question #9:
I am a 49 year-old Chicagoan living in Prague, Czech Republic. Now that summer is coming up, I'd like to take some books to the pool and on trips.
I like books on politics, novels, and Sci Fi (especially the old-fashioned ones that might seem quaint today. I had even thought about buying some of the old, pulp Sci Fi magazines.)
I just bought the two following books:
1) "The Little Friend" by donna Tartt
2) "The Town That Forgot How to Breathe" by Kenneth J. Harvey
What books can you recommend? I enjoy books that really create a sense of time and place (which is why I sometimes like B-grade movies like Criss Cross; the richly evocative fictional world the characters create made the movie memorable).
What books can you suggest? For each book, please provide a one or two sentence description.
Question #10:
Mine would be:
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brooker
No fond return of love by Barbara Pym
Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad
Secret history by Donna Tartt
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen
Addy, don't follow your logic there and Little house in the big woods is autobiography not a novel.
Question #11:
For anyone who has read Haruki Murakami or Donna Tartt in particular, but also Ian McEwan, did you enjoy their books? If so, can you recommend anything else?
I'm an English lit major and some of my favorite books of all time are The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The Secret History, and Enduring Love. Would love some good recommendations..
Question #12:
I need a new book, but I haven't found anything appealing lately. I love George Orwell, I've read most of the classics; -although my favorite novel would have to be The Secret History by Donna Tartt... Not so much the thriller aspect but the Greek history and culture that was intertwined with it.
Any suggestions?
And I swear to god, if anybody mentions Twilight I will drive myself off a cliff.
Question #13:
Did you like it?
Yes or no?
why?
Who killed Harriets brother?
Question #14:
Secret History by Donna Tartt
Question #15:
Sorry to sound haughty in my question; I just don't feel like wading through lists of Dark Towers recommendations etc.
So, I'm looking for some recommendations for a good book to read :) Primarily, I like a book that is well written. This would (and I'm sorry to be so controversial again) exclude authors like Stephen King, Wilbur Smith, and fair number of Oprah's classics, although some of them aren't bad. I don't mind a long book, although I have not really previously enjoyed very slow classics like Middlemarch by George Elliot. I like many contemporary authors too. Here is a list of some of my all-time favorite books to give you an idea of what to recommend:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakmi
On the Road by Kerouac
Slaughter-house 5 (just because it made me laugh so much)
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Death in Venice and other stuff by Thomas Mann
Cool beans; I know that was a bit of a long-winded description, but would be great to get some good recommendations. Thanks!
Of the suggestions below, I have read The Great Gatsby a couple of times; read Catch 22; and A Good Earth. Pearl S. Buck is a brilliant author. Will look into the other suggestions. Thanks guys!
Question #16:
And why couldn't you finish it?
The last book I couldn't finish was "the Little Friend" by Donna Tartt. I loved her "The Secret Histroy" but was bored and annoyed with this book.
Question #17:
What did you think of it and in particular the ending?
Question #18:
did you like it ?
did you not like it ?
Question #19:
I have recently joined ReaditSwapit.com - a website where you list books you no longer want, and other people offer to swap with you from their list.
I listed a hardback copy of 'The Almost Moon' by Alice Sebold, and have had loads of people request to swap.
The following is a list of books I like the look of from their lists, but I need help making a choice!
What would you choose, have you read any of these and what do you think of them?
I generally like descriptive, intelligent books; recently I enjoyed The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The List-
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
The Tenderness of Wolves
by Stef Penney
The Woodlanders
by Thomas Hardy
The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
Salt and Saffron
by Kamila Shamsie
Resistance
by Anita Shreve
The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
Darkness Visible
by William Golding
Arthur and George
by Julian Barnes
to be continue
Human Traces
by Sebastian Faulks
Brownstones
by Edwidge Danticat
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
Love in the Days of Rage
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Charlotte Gray
by Sebastian Faulks
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson
Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Sea Glass
by Anita Shreve
By the Sea
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
The Nice and the Good
by Iris Murdoch
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
The Interpretation of Murder
by Jed Rubenfeld
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
by Peter Hoeg
Question #20:
Has anyone read 'The House At Midnight' by Lucie Whitehouse?
Yet again, this is a novel that reviewers said was on a par with the stunning 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt.
But it's nowhere near as good!!! It's contrived, superficial, and melodramatic - anyone else agree?
And has anyone actually found a novel that IS on a par with Donna Tartt's?
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