itsybitsygingie's Book Journey

Why does it feel like the others five are doing some cult shit behind Richard back? The disappearing and the lying makes them sus especially when talking in Latin so that Richard can’t understand. Are they killing people and drinking their blood? This book make me second guess everything.

P.S Henry not knowing people had gone to the moon is too funny that man is a tv hater

I get that Bunny is an oblivious fool and all, but I really don't get why he thinks irritating them and making them do EVERYTHING for him in this obnoxious way helps him at all. Even if he doesn't think they will kill him, too, their money could run out, what then? And for the love of God, they're your FRIENDS, Bunny. I don't think Bunny really knows what that means, the way he just leeches off of them with no kind word or deed in return.

The asshole is dead, we can celebrate 🎉

The only thing I have to say is: Henry, you’re a psychopath, but after that disastrous holiday in Rome I would have killed him too.

After reading the whole exchange with Francis... I don't even know what to think. Like, I knew they were all messed up, even before the Bacchanal thing. And I'm not going to pretend that I didn't see the hints Donna Tart dropped about Francis and the twins either. But I guess all this time, I just saw they as one United Messed Up Association that Richard was stupid to join —so eagerly, might I add— but now I can see how individually messed up they are, with themselves and with each other.

It's something I've always wondered about the Liberal arts. Like being creative and such, opens your mind to more possibilities and ideas and ways of thinking that others, but it's not always a good thing, yk? And it always seems to add romance to the most tragic things. Like the idea of the Bacchanal, or how I can't read one chapter without someone being drunk, or stoned, or both (like come on). Like we always ridicule simple, narrow minded people, but to me ppl like the Greek students are more dangerous and self-destructive, especially bc they had the air of ppl that were above others, only to be a set of messed up weird individuals. I'm glad Richard is finally seeing them for what they are, but even he understands that he is stuck with them forever.

Do I think they are all crazy? Absolutely! Will I be pleased to read about their well deserved demise? Heck yeah! Do I hate any of them? Curiously no!

“I felt a fierce, nearly irresistible desire to seize Camilla by her bruised wrist, twist her arm behind her back until she cried out, throw her on my bed: strangle her, rape her, I don’t know what. And then the cloud passed over the sun again, and the life went out of everything.”

‘“You don’t feel a great deal of emotion for other people, do you?”

I was taken aback. “What are you talking about?” I said. “Of course I do.”

“Do you?” He raised an eyebrow. “I don’t think so. It doesn’t matter,” he said, after a long, tense pause. “I don’t, either.”

“What are you trying to get at?”

He shrugged. “Nothing,” he said. “Except that my life, for the most part, has been very stale and colorless. Dead, I mean. The world has always been an empty place to me. I was incapable of enjoying even the simplest things. I felt dead in everything I did.” He brushed the dirt from his hands. “But then it changed,” he said. “The night I killed that man.”’

Fascinating that Richard can have a thought like that about his dear friend Camilla that he says he loves and then is so offended when Richard is like “hey so you’re a sociopath too, right?”. He is an unreliable narrator, so we’re not getting 100% honest, stream-of-consciousness-esque thoughts, but he’s also not editing out his horrible thought about Camilla. Does he genuinely think he is not a bad person despite the lying, murder, and horrifying thoughts, or is he lying to himself as well?

So, of course the incest was real.

And what's up with that sudden intrusive thought about raping Camilla? Although, one could argue that this whole book is an insane collection of intrusive thoughts from the beginning.

I'm so confused by this line.

Still, the first murder - the farmer - seemed to have been so simple.

Its talking here like Richard was a part of the first murder. I thought for a bit that we had switched narrators, but it becomes clear later that its still him.

Unless of course the narrator is only different for this first section until the first -----.