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Summary: Food For Thought: The Great Gatsby is empty calories.
Review: I say that The Great Gatsby is empty calories because it is my belief that even fiction should be food for thought and this book was so easily digested that it was easily forgotten. I am in the 9th grade and have only begun to form my own tastes for adult literature, but to me, there is an enormous difference in the knowledge I gleaned from this book versus George Orwell's 1984 or Emile Zola's Germinal, both of which I have read this month. I found myself absorbed in both of those books and even took interest in understanding the principles of socialism and totaltarianism. I found myself feeling just a little more enlightened by these books. The characters in the Great Gatsby, however, are by comparison, very superficial, and I didn't connect with their problems. So even though it's a moderately dark book, it went down like a fairy tale: eloquent, fanciful and fluffy. Some people like that, but I would rather laugh and cry with a good book than read an indulgent novel like The Great Gatsby.
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Summary: The most important and relevent book of all time.
Review: More than anything, a meticulously crafted tale about TIME: its insufferable pace, its disruption, and the fallacy of controlling it. In the end, everyone is human--but Gatsby is worth more than all the "rest of 'em put together". Alas, reality never lives up to the promises of the green light: there is certain loss in having. A metaphor for Fitzgerald's time, our time, and all time.--Justin Laird Weaver
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Summary: Excellent novel, stunning prose
Review: "The Great Gatsby" is a superb novel, easily one of the best books of 20th century literature. I was disappointed by some negative comments submitted by other readers, but then I realized that a book as moody and beautiful and simple as "The Great Gatsby" cannot be fully understood by today's America, which is ironic as Gatsby himself was never fully understood by his own era's America.
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Summary: A book that must be read over and over
Review: When I read it for the first time, I could not grasp its essential which is what the real love is all about. It was only after few years later that I understood why this book is classified as such a great book that attracts so many readers.
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Summary: Definitely insightful!
Review: I first picked up this book off a list of requirements. The first few pages were a bit hard to understand, and I began to think that I wasn't ready to read it. But when I actually deciphered the passages, it became clear that every word had a meaning behind it. The book showed the faults that gradually weaken human beings. Must read!!!!
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Summary: An overall beautifully writen great book
Review: I really loved The Great Gatsby, becuase it was written very well, and had a wonderful plot.
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Summary: Fitzgerald brings up the question of moral character.
Review: The Great Gatsby is a great novel not only by illustrating the "Jazz Age" with all its greatness but it also depicts the failure of searching for moral character in the pursuit for the "American Dream". Fitzgerald has made a masterpiece that will dwell in modern society.
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Summary: A good, if not overated classic
Review: A well written book about a wealthy man in pusuit of the woman that he once loved. Observed mostly through the eyes of Nick, the neighbour, the Great Gatsby brilliantly sums up the idealism of the roaring twenties. A touching love story and some wonderfully written extras, including Mrs Wilson and Jordan. Tom is also a great villain type. Not as good as it is cracked up to be, or anywhere near for that matter. Balzac has written similar story's which are all vastly superior. F. Scott Fitzgerald seems to get very caught up in his descriptions sometimes, spilling out metaphor after metaphor describing someones beauty. This doesn't all fit so well in a book under 200 pages. Never the less, very good, certainly worth reading. Not a book for the ages however.
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Summary: What a great book!
Review: At first when I started reading this book, I thought it was very boring. Then as I read on I got so hooked on it and whenever I read I never wanted to put it down. I think that this book was great in portraying the realites of love in life and the way that people learn to live with money and without it, just as people do today. Great Book!
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Summary: Great dipictiopn of the failure of the American Dream
Review: Fitzgerald did a great job with the novel. Bruccoli made it better. This version is helpful in understanding the tremendous symbolism of the book. There is so much to learn from this book.I would recommend this version to anyone.
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