The Secret History

I don't even know what to say. It's incredibly difficult to rate this book. It was weirdly inconsistent in managing to grab my attention. I felt like I was on a roller-coaster in some ways because it kept going up and down when it came to grabbing my interest. At times I was completely into it and couldn't stop reading and at other times I was slugging through it, bored out of my mind. This would have been helped if it was simply shorter. 
The book was also unexpectedly homoerotic, but with, like, no pay-off whatsoever. I've never read something so distinctly homoerotic and yet so unequivocally heterosexual in execution.
To call it a modern classic is accurate, in that it gave me all the same feelings as practically every other classic I have read. Particularly, I have similar feelings about this book that I do the Great Gatsby. The characters are flat and unlikeable which makes things hard for me, but they are at least interesting characters, which makes me want to continue. The good thing about Gatsby is that it's a short novel, whereas this one was way too long. That's what made it so boring at times. The good thing about TSH is that it has interesting plot points, which Gatsby sometimes lacked. Overall, though, I find neither particularly impressive.