>>25326630
A pretty mediocre novel with BBC Sherlock tier smart characters, but with one of the greatest autistic characters in literature, who sadly stops appearing halfway through.

>>25326630
if you pretend to love it you can pull arthoes. it's ok

i want to read it but i am afraid it will end up being infinite jest for women

Fun shlock with an interesting plot full of good twists and some genuinely hilarious moments, especially with how fucked up the characters can be.

>>25326635
Bunny is kino and you can definitely feel the book dip a bit without them

>BBC Sherlock tier smart characters
Gonna disagree with this one a bit. I'm assuming you're talking about Henry in particular and he didn't come off as "stupid person's idea of a smart person" as one would expect.

>>25326630
You'd be in for an fervid pouring over 500 elucidating pages in mere days, an urgent reaching for two other novels which will spellbind your young soul, and a ruthless vigil over the ruins which last between now and the next novel Donna Tartt may choose to commend into our clammy, half-lit, stricken hands.

>>25326759
>>25328030
You write like redditors.

>>25328075
I'm 22 and I realize that with age I am getting pussywhipped into söy-infused redditorhood so hard. You are right: I write like one; I even talk like one. And it's tragic seeing as all I've ever done is avoid that fester of shit.

>>25326630
The prose was a complete turn off.

Say Gex

>>25326759
I read the book at 20 and loved the characters, then re-read it at 30 and still liked the book but I then thought all the characters were pretentious dipshits making up for a lack of common sense by talking like they were on Masterpiece Theatre

>>25326630
The book is about esoteric knowledge, how it is acquired and its corrupting power. And how powerful knowledge is transferred through true classical education, not through STEM courses or modern arts.

>>25326670
I pulled an arthoe once without reading this shit; feels like an achievement.
Pretty sure it was just because she overheard me playing a piano piece from one of the Ghibli films fluently once though, so I'm still pretty shameless.

>>25328120
Gex

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Only important that it gives a pretty clear instruction on how to contact the immortal God Dionysus.

>>25328030
I liked secret history but you faggotty writing makes me wish I hated it

>>25328326
I'm Chuck Wendig-ing in they asses so hard today.

>>25326630
Thought it would have way more about the whole ritual thing from what I had heard about it beforehand. Still very much enjoyed it even tho it probably could've cut out a few late night apartment visits and got the same story across.

>>25326630
I really liked it OP. I found that this “BBC Sherlock Holmes” tier of intelligence in the book to be quite a funny satire on how brilliant we think we are that age. Of course they’re idiots, and we know that as we read it, but it really reminded me of all the kinds of cringe I was involved in at that age, and it captures it with the exact same type of ignorance I often find myself wishing I could return to.

Anyone got recs for books like this? Already read The Shards, The Magus, School of Night. Basically good suspense, first person narrative