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Summary: A literary time-warp!
Review: I don't know what to say. I have read this book twice and still I want to read it again. This book is so beutifully written and has such a wonderful plot, it made me want to lock myself in my room and cry for days. No book has ever touched me like this one. The Great Gatsby is one of the best books I have ever read and it probably will always be. Reading this book is almost like a time-warp that takes you right back to the roaring 20's - parties, glamour and everything. Tangled into all that there is a tragic love story with many twists and turns that won't leave anyone unsatisfied.
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Summary: BORING.........
Review: I found this book to be very boring and not very informative. I had to read it for english and I couldn't get interested in the book. Not enough to hook the reader in.
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Summary: Beautiful but sadly unfulfilling.
Review: Perhaps one of the best works of the early 20th century, it is the epitome of all that was the Jazz Age. Fabulous wealth, extravagance, and romance. Still, the characters, especially Nick, seemed a bit 2-dimensional at times, and I personally wished that I could know more about them. Still, the book is a work of art and displays a powerful message, that there is no American Dream. None of the characters ever succeed to attain what they desire, due to personal failings or external forces. An essential read, but a hundred extra pages would have made it a near-perfect book.
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Summary: ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES. THIS IS THE REAL THING
Review: I am shocked by the negative reviews of this claasic of American fiction. Before you embarrass yourself by knocking this book, please keep in mind that it was #2 on the 20th century fiction list For those of you with your nose too deep in the Grisham and King to see for yourself, let me point out a few things that make this such a great book.First please note the economy of the words of the storytelling and the lyrical language used by Fitzgerald. It is a novel that tells a remarkable story without a single excess word. (S. King take note---a book does not have to be 1000 pages---get an editor, Big Guy) Also note the the cleverness of having the narration from Nick's point of view, which adds a lot to the book because of the interplay between Nick and Gatsby. Notice also how Fitzgerald handles the timeless themes of money, power and class, while telling a great story. Even if you don't have time to read the whole book, just read the last page. It's as good as anything that has ever been written.Hope you enjoy it!
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Summary: The Great _Great Gatsby_
Review: I just read this book in English class. I couldn't believe that none of my friends liked it. I thought it was such an intricately-woven story and a biting social commentary. It was so illustrative of 1920s culture and society. Almost every little detail in this book is symbolic of some aspect of someone's personality or past or of human nature in general. I could go on and on about why this book is worthwhile, but I suppose that the main reason is that it's a sad but fascinating story.
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Summary: Defines an Age
Review: The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's ode to the 20s. It is the story of Jay Gatsby and his love of Daisy Buchanan. The story of Gatsby is told by Nick Carraway, a young New York broker who has become enamored of Gatsby's lifestyle.The Great Gatsby is one of those books that have come to symbolize different things for different people. For me the meaning of The Great Gatsby is best summed up by the old saying, "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." Gatsby longs for the company and love of Daisy Buchanan. When he finally gets it tradgedy soon follows. Daisy is the wife of Tom Buchanan, an old money New York socialite who is more amused by Gatsby than anything else. The conflict you would expect between Gatsby and Tom never truly materializes because to have conflict you need to have a measure of doubt as to the outcome of a struggle. With Tom and Gatsby there is no doubt, no doubt that Tom will win because he is the old money elite. Nick Carraway is an excellent medium through which to tell this story. Even though he is telling it after the fact, you still catch a glimpse of the youthful wonder he has regarding Gatsby in the beginning of the story. We can tell Nick is becoming more disillusioned with Gatsby and his lifestyle, and also the ideals of the 20s, as he gets deeper into the story. The green light across the water symbolizes anything that is longed for in anyone's life. The Great Gatsby raises the question of whether it is better to find out what is behind the light or whether we should allow the light to remain as a forever present goal. What we want and what we need are not always the same thing.
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Summary: Awful. Like Reading the Yellow Pages
Review: If you're thinking of buying the Great Gatsby (a classic example of the literature elite trying to cram a book down the people's mouths as a "classic"), read the yellow pages instead. It is that moving. With so many truly great books out there (anything by Vonnegut, Catcher in the Rye, anything by Voltaire, etc.), why waste your time on this?
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Summary: I guess this just proves a bit of my own ignorance....
Review: What I meant by that statement was that I really must have missed a lot when I read this book. The reason I say that is because I'm an avid reader of classic fiction (great literature from the past and the present), but I just didn't understand why this is considered one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. I chose to read this book in part because of its "greatness" in the eyes of most reviewers. But I found myself 150 pages into it and still waiting for something exciting to happen. It started out slow and just got slower. But I just didn't get it. The ending was definitely surprising (I won't spoil it for whoever's reading this), but somewhat of an anticlimax. What was the most depressing to me is that I have read many other great books that my friends have hated or found utterly boring, and I have just loved them. Examples include "Madame Bovary" "Lord of the Flies" "Great Expectations" and "Ethan Frome." But I must have just missed something major in this book. I understand all the fuss about the "American Dream" and how this is about the hollowness of rich living, but it seems that in writing about that hollowness, the book becomes hollow too. Well, I'm only 16 and in the 10th grade, so that definitely must be affecting something. I guess I'll just leave it on my bookshelf for a decade and go back and then we'll see where I am. For now, though, I might reread "Beloved" or move on to "Wuthering Heights."
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Summary: The Great Gatsby
Review: I fail to see why this book is such a literary rave. It's the story about spoiled rich people with no meaning to their lives. If this is the best of the author's works, I won't read any more of his books. There are too many truly good books in the library.
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Summary: Moving
Review: Other than the story being good, The Great Gatsby contains some of the most beautifully written prose in the English language. For that and the emotional power, you must read this book.
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