So I finished The Goldfinch last night.And this is just my two cents worth...........
When I first started reading I wondered if the author had a thesaurus next to her.I don't know how else to say this but sometimes a bedroom can just be called a bedroom.No need to call it a boudoir.( not actually in the book).BUT,I got totally sucked in.......for about 270 pages and then it slowed down and didn't call to me as much.But more than one person had said the middle can be slow but it picks up at the end.I kept reading.I got to the last 20 pages and was still waiting for something to happen.Then I was down to five pages.....still waiting......2 pages.........starting to get a bad feeling here.......last page.I don't want to put any spoilers so I will just say that I felt like Ralphie when,after so many days of waiting,he finally gets his decoder ring.Only to find that he is hit with a crummy commercial.I was like," I read through 770 pages for this?" Ugh.I think it was an okay read but if I could have a do over I would pass on it and spend that time on another book instead.