It’s an enjoyable book and its many references to historical paintings make it especially fun for all art history lovers. The ending was as fascinating as the beginning, however, so my effort was rewarded. I lost interest for the next few hundred pages and had to force myself to read on. I was absolutely gripped by the first 240 pages. And that was Donna Tartt’s book at its very best. As I started reading the novel, I felt I was reading a combination of a 19 th century of a bildungsroman with a modern fast-paced thriller. Though it took me a while to start reading it (at an impressive 864 pages, it’s not exactly a book one can read in a day), I was soon drawn into the world it described.
It was recommended to me by a friend, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
When I first reached for Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, I was unaware that it was surrounded by any controversy.
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