Secret History

OK, I'm getting more into this one now...

Does anyone else notice how "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" the story is?  I keep expecting Julian to start having an affair with the music teacher.   

I am liking it, though, but I must say I took GREAT exception to the line, "But if he's from St. Louis, how did he get so smart?"  Made me not like the narrator much at all, but then, I'm not sure we're supposed to like him.  He's kind of a nonentity, isn't he?  I suppose that's how he sees himself, especially compared to all the uber-glamorous other Greek scholars.

Thoughts?  I'm only a bit in still (Camilla's just cut her foot on the glass) but it is starting to warm up considerably!

I read this book and I still cannot decide if I really liked it or not. In a lot of ways I hated the book, but something about it kept me reading. So I think there must have been something about it that appealled to me but I just can't put my finger on why. I've only ever put one book down in disgust (American Psycho) but I was pulled into the story and wanted to find out what would eventually happen.

Yeah, the narrator is really only tangent to the inner sanctum but that allows him to flow between the characters much more. but even in the book I think Richard describes himself as a 'bystander.' I like how we got to know more about Francis later on.

Do you think you'll read 'The Little Friend"?