This book has often been described as Fitzgerald’s most beautiful piece of work and frankly I do not see it. I first read this book as a teenager for fun and remember disliking it immensely but later not remembering why. Now that I ave reread it I realize what that is. The type of people described a...
A really good book. I honestly hated it until the very last chapter, then I hated it was over! Such a good book, and before you know it, you really do care what happens to everyone.
Prior to reading this, I had heard so much about how The Great Gatsby is this great, classic all-time novel, and after reading it, I am left wondering what am I missing? I didn’t find anything particularly exceptional about it, and I don’t see why it’s so great. Not to say this is a bad novel, I jus...
Other reviews at The Book Babe's Reads. I know that The Great Gatsby is a big literary classic, and that it defined a generation and all, but I just can't love it. I liked it, and that was that. Because, to be honest with you - the writing just didn't hit me right. There are a few amazing lines, b...
It’s strange, when I first picked up this book few months back I wasn’t even able to complete a chapter, but then one song from the movie adaptation made be take up this again, , (though I am unable to make out the connection between that song and this novel in anyway, all I can say is - both are ...
Like many American teenagers, I read this book under duress in 11th-grade English. Like many American teenagers, I hated its guts. I didn't get what made it a classic. Not for a minute. The only result of being forced to read it was that for decades I refused to touch it with a bargepole. Then I r...
This was one of those classics that left me wondering why exactly it has stood the test of time. Some of the figurative and symbolic language is lovely and effectively used, but the characters were mostly shallow and unlikeable. I guess that's the point, they are shallow people who chase after riche...
This is one of several books that I feel mysteriously compelled to declaim. I forced my mother to endure many weeks of me reading this aloud to her, at times in my uneven mid-Atlantic accent, at other times in my normal voice. It's odd really, because Nick's voice is quite interior and introverted; ...
This will be short as the last time I attempted this book was High School and I've worked very hard to repress the experience. Simply, I don't get why people like this book so much. I kept checking the title wondering if I picked up Gone With the Wind instead because I got the same vibe reading this...
The Great Gatsby is a book you get something different out every time you read it. You get a different perspective or a different understanding, or even a different way of viewing the world, either Gatsby's world or your own. The Great Gatsby is just one of those books I will never tire of reading.
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