The Secret History 1992
★★★★½4.5
Tartt tells you who died on page one and you spend five hundred pages hoping you are wrong about why. Overlong in the middle and I did not care.
Mostly about the story, the pace.
Films · Television · Books · Albums · Games
A profile of your taste, built from what you actually loved.
Log films, television, books, albums, and games in one place. Every title is read for its character on fourteen dimensions, and every log teaches the profile what you respond to.
Justin
The Prestige Hunter · 75 rated
- Harsher than 60% of Buds
- Has rated more than 59% of Buds
Fourteen dimensions, read against every other Bud. Yours appears after a handful of ratings.
Forrest Gump1994Epic, effortless, earnest and nostalgic.
Not a genre label: a reading of how it moves, how it feels, and what it asks of you. Your profile is matched against this, so the page can say how likely you are to like it, four stars or more.
Every film, television show, book, album, and game gets the same reading.
How it works
- 01Log
Type a title, paste a paragraph, or photograph a stub. Sources like Letterboxd and Netflix can do it for you; nothing is logged without a yes from you.
- 02Read
We read each title's character and each of your reviews. Your profile is the pattern in what you rated up and down.
- 03Predict
Before you start something, the page says how likely you are to like it, and why.
- 04Argue
Find your taste twin, your interesting opposite, and the three questions people fight about on every title.
Twelve archetypes
Names for the patterns in how people rate. You get one after a handful of ratings; it can change.
