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Not The Secret History being seen as THE performative reader book but the MC does coke in a Burger King parking lot and having constant bisexual thoughts
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Anonymous 12w

everyone who reads it wants to think they’re like henry or francis but really they’re just richard

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Anonymous 12w

I went to a high school that was basically a Bennington feeder school (the author’s college / what Hampden is based on) and like. I don’t think the book hit the same way for me because it felt like the kind of bs my classmates got up to 24/7

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Anonymous 12w

He’s not special I can do that too

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Anonymous 12w

wdym the secret history isn’t set in the past

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12w

Exactly. I, like Richard, also have suspiciously romantic thoughts about Henry.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12w

I, also like Richard, moved east from California for university and am captivated by everyone around me and enjoy lying from time to time, plus constant bisexual thoughts.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12w

Based

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 12w

it was written in the ‘90s and is set in the ‘80s

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