same for me i read it a month ago and i can’t stop thinking about it so i bought it because it’s just a part of me now ❤

I wonder if these students realise how much they are despised?

What a comebackkkk

The more I learn about this book, the more I fall in love with it. I hope one day I can craft a brilliant story like this.

Once for fun I tried to get a prospectus from 'All Soul's College', Oxford, having had 2 from 'Nuffield College', Oxford. I received a letter back saying that 'All Soul's College' do not recruit students but offer fellowships to remarkable students. WOW!! La creme da la creme!

5:45 I'm in high school studying ancient greek and I knowa lot about the book except I haven't read it yet, and since I've never seen it in a linrary, and I want to read it in its original language, and I can't wait to actually read it I have started the audiobook. When in the first lines of the book, we learn the murder that will happen in the end, I felt a feeling of déjà-vu, but I couldn't place it. It's only now that I realise it was because we are studying greek tragedies at the moment and they always anounce the tragic end at the beginning of the play, since what really matters is HOW they come to their end. Thanks for helping me realise what was so familiar !

I loved your analysis! I appreciate that you explained some of the Greek and classic references that I didn't catch.

I just finished the book for the first time and am enjoying watching reviews. I read it in three days-it’s kind of all-consuming. It was really good to get your classics-orientated review and I thank you for that.

TRUMP WON. 🇺🇸

If you still like ancient greek stuff: latro series by gene wolfe is SO GOOD.

Someone going to Oxford is worried about “elitism” at particular colleges. Funny.

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The thing that most stuck to my mind is when Richard got shot by Charles. Richard called the others for their attention but they didn't even give a proper reaction. This scene really tells a lot... How Richard was just standing as a bystander watching and doing nothing. So he got shot standing in the danger. It portrays the same when he just watched them commit the crime and took the consequences of it along the way...and everyone seemed to not mind him at all.

this video felt like a massage for my brain thank you so much!

The reverse snobbery in the UK is like nowhere else. The UK built an elite college to train the cream of the crop of the next generation of soccer players - It's applauded as being elite. Yet when it comes to a commitment to excellence at an Oxford college. It's now derided for being elitist.

I suggest you wear a hat when in the sun.

WOW!! What an adventure!

'The Silence of the Girls' by Pat Barker is skillfully written and contains phrases and ideas that stay with me, but while not gory does imagine a lot of cruelties I would say not for very sensitive readers, nor for those who want to retain a romantic view of Achilles.

fun fact there is also another obscure history text with almost the same name called Secret History of the Mongols which in tales about the reign and the life of Chinggis Khan, is supposedly accurate but it is full of mythical instances and in my opinion very unreliable narrator too, but I think its more of a coincidence than donna tartt referencing two historical text

I finished reading this novel about a month ago and I agree - it's one that lingers. There is so much to think about that it's on my 'to be read again' pile.

please do babel by rf kuang next

I’m glad I watched this. Just finished listening to the abridged audiobook (I started listening to the unabridged version, got maybe 6 hours in, and tapped out) and was very confused about why this book is held in such high regard by many. As you have studied the classics (and hopefully have your degree by now 🤞🏿) I can see how this book would speak to you. Yours is an interesting perspective. Unfortunately, I still don’t like the book- it read like The Great Gatsby with undertones of American Psycho and a twist of Greek lit thrown in (which went completely over my head), and the rottenness of the characters was no surprise (the story did start with a murder of a “friend” after all).

Anyone have insight on St Cross College?

I found the part when Richard nearly dies at the happy house because he didn't realise how dangerous a winter in vermont could be, and how the effects of that winter will stay with him for every, very interesting. Ironic that he is saved by Henry Winter, who Richard can't seem to see his dangerous nature either. Just interesting I thought!

De verdad que siempre me ha parecido ridícula las competencias y bandos entre distintas universidades 😂

I think Tartts discription of how George Orwell saw Julien highlights who Julien was as a person. Julien is the “charismatic leader”

Questions have been raised about the death of the farmer. Did they kill him, or did a catamount ( cougar) attack him? Why all the references to catamounts in the book- street, motel, etc.? Maybe they stumbled upon the farmer, who had already been attacked. Think about the wounds.... Also got autistic vibes from Henry.

can someone explain the coin on the cover of this edition? 0:35

Excellent video. Your review is by far the best I have seen to date on KZbin. I purchased the book last week. Now I suppose I have to set about purchasing Procopius -"The Secret History"... Thank you.

first: live your channel second: why you sound just like Emma Stone? ❤❤❤❤

If I may ask, what book are you using for greek?

Salve Sabrina! I love your channel and you’ve actually inspired me to learn Latin properly after dipping in and out casually for many years. I’m enjoying Duolingo and using other books and resources to self-teach. I wondered on your opinion of Duolingo as a friend of mine completed it and said he was disappointed that it only covered the present tense and found it limited? I imagine you must be very busy in your final year but I do so enjoy your videos and hope you are planning on continuing to make them? Jay 😊

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The herodion is open to the pivlic actually

Great review Sabrina, I appreciated your musings on the characters and broader meaning.

My favorite theory about this story is that the group didn’t actually kill the farmer during the bacchanal. There is so much evidence, that he was killed by a mountain lion - the body was mutilated (stomach ripped open), the news reported that there were bite marks and it looked like an animal attack, and Richard and Charles even meet the animal while they’re driving to a restaurant. None of them even remember the murder. This makes the whole story so much more tragic, because Bunny’s death would’ve never had to happen - which ultimately led to the downfall of every one in this group.

I love howvyou spreed positively intellectual energy in your videos ❤ but i feel obligated to ask - will we see pt II of the vlog? 😭

You're surprisingly very moral for someone into classics

In a future video, could you do a walkthrough Study-with-me video on how you read a translation (Greek preferred) in preparation for next day tutorials? In other words, when preparing for a session going over a translation passaged you are assigned to cover, how do you prepare? Do you write the whole text down word per word or just a gloss of the meaning or ____? Thanks.

this was so great! as someone who read Bacchae and The Secret History and had their brain chemistry changed by both, i loved you analysis of Bunny as Pentheus and Henry or Julian as Dionysus. it fits so well!

Can I apply for a master’s degree in classics with a bachelor degree in French studies as an international student?

I am an English literature major and I never heard of this book, till tiktok so I’ve decided to read it. I am a hardcore “dark academia” type of aesthetic. Reading this book was a very interesting experience, at the beginning it felt like a dream, I can say I felt as if I was floating. However, the more I dig in the more it started to feel like a nightmare especially when they started to plan the murder, and I applaud the author for making me feel so many feelings. I have this tendency to want to relate to a character whenever I read a novel, but in the one I couldn’t decide which one I was, they were so realistic no one was prefect. And the more I dig in the more I decided to be “the safe choice” and kept waiting for Julian to appear but him being such a “prefect” person bugged me so much, when he disappeared all sudden I realized that he was shallow, and a coward. When Henry said “I loved him more than my father” it hit me hard.

just finished reading this and felt alot of similarities to crime and punishment(i havent read the greek books mentioned here, which may be of closer influence). even more so because i didnt like richard either while reading. At times i cant help but wishing they had met the same fate as rashkolnikov 😅

What an illuminating and contextualizing review!

Always nice to watch your videos in preparation to advise my kids (5 and 0.8 YO😅) when the time comes

(over) eager y11 here, hoping for classics, Love all your videos, they are all infinitely helpful and you represent classics superbly.

I feel like we never really get a clear understanding of who and what Camilla is because Richard’s view is so skewed and even when he’s mad at her and has disturbing thoughts about her there never is a change of how she’s described to us.

Okay but why did no one mention how you look so much like young Donna Tartt?!? Literal copy, I’m shook

If you guys want to read something like tsh but still think about tsh every day, read The Goldfinch. It's also written by Donna Tartt and it even has francis in some scenes!