I liked The Secret History but I wouldn’t reread The Goldfinch if you paid me. I would also say the first part of the book is the most interesting so I’d you didn’t even like that part I would call it.

I am not queer so I can’t tell if this is the right take, but every big twist in the book being “surprise, someone is gay!” felt really off to me. Like it would have been groundbreaking 20 years ago maybe but now it feels pandering and reductive? I don’t know.