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What's your favorite Donna tarot novel? And fave characters?

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Near obsessive rant under cut

My favourite of her books is The Secret History. I genuinely cannot overemphasise what this book means to me. After uni (where I had to read dry ass political books and papers constantly) I genuinely really struggled to read anything, even fiction. I found it on a table labelled “Modern Classics” and literally after reading the first sentence I was hooked. The setting and characters really spoke to me, and I have never considered myself a fan of lit fic before but I’m definitely a convert now.

If I had to rank her novels I’d probably put them in order of release, I don’t know why but the goldfinch never really grabbed me the way tsh did, but i loved the little friend and i know its somewhat unpopular.

My favourite of her characters are Richard, Bunny and Harriet. I know Bunny is a wild choice but I genuinely find him a bit endearing; he’s such a nasty person but he’s the only member of the clique who doesn’t try to disguise it. He’s a bastard and he knows it, while the others try their best to appear as dignified upper class people. Harriet and Richard are mainly because I relate to them so much, though Richard is as blank a slate as possible so that he can fool us into believing everything in the novel (both motive and action) so I think everyone relates to him really. And I basically was Harriet as a child (even down to the haircut), but I wasn’t at all obsessed with Harry Houdini.