Google Preview

• .

  • 

  • The Secret History is one of my favories. It really pulls you into the story and the characters' lives.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― Charleighh78 said on Nov 26, 2008 about the Audio Cassette edition| Add your feedback

• .

  • The Secret History

  • The characters are all throw-backs to an earlier era (I originally thought the novel was taking place in the seventies until references to the first Gulf War placed the story somewhere in the early nineties). There are a few scenes that do little to advance the plot or develop the characters and ju ... Continue

    The characters are all throw-backs to an earlier era (I originally thought the novel was taking place in the seventies until references to the first Gulf War placed the story somewhere in the early nineties). There are a few scenes that do little to advance the plot or develop the characters and just make the book that much longer, but overall this is a well-written and interesting study on how a select group of people react to events of extreme stress.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― Readingrat said on Nov 5, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

• .

  • 

  • Second time through for a book club. Read it when it first came out in the early nineties.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― Branflakez said on Mar 23, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

Groups with this in collection

50 Book Challenge! (318)

Eclectic Book Club (118)

• fictionnovember1001 books to read before you dieacademe2008Fiction USA1961-presentamerican litContemporary litMy favorites