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I'm one of the obvious minority who hated this book. I really thought I would love it, but I found the writing intolerable, and the plot incredibly depressing without any creativity or beauty to make up for it (think "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle", which I loved). I suffered through the whole thing, but I really wish I hadn't. I'd feel better if it were half as long so I hadn't wasted so much time on it. The Vegas portion especially could have been about two pages long ("We got wasted. We laughed. We passed out. We got up and stole some stuff. We got wasted. We laughed. We passed out."… ad nauseam). Most of the characters are dull at best and awful at worst, without any redeeming qualities that I could see-- even the main character. They're flawed and bummed out about it, but not enough to consider becoming better people. And Tartt spends an awful lot of time trying to make us care about the characters by repeating their problems and sadnesses a million times over, none of which end up succeeding. Total waste of my precious reading time.