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Review title: How can Carol Goodman sleep at night?
Product review: I picked up this book while traveling, entirely on the strength of an on-the-cover review comparing it to Donna Tartt's "The Secret History." What the cover review doesn't say, however, is that Goodman's "atmospheric" novel is little more than a clumsy mimicry of Tartt's chilling tome.While "Languages" is admittedly well-written, nearly EVERYTHING about it is an obvious plagiarism: the eerie private school setting, the lonely, dispossesed protagonist looking back with guilt at events of the past; the seemingly impenetrable clique of bright students, including an incestuous brother & sister duo; the study of a dead language under the line-crossing tutelage of a revered & mysterious mentor; an obsession with pagan ritual; and of course, a series of tragic deaths.If you haven't read Tartt's glittering novel, I'll admit you might enjoy this. If you have, however, you'll find little here of interest. (...)
