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Summary: a truly great book!
Review: this is one of the best books i have ever read. it is a fantastic voyage into another time and place, and will sweep you away. fitzgerald tells of a way of life.
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Summary: Good enough.
Review: I was forced to read this book for my high school English class. It was an easy read--the book's not long and the language is not too difficult. I'd like to say that the concept's are not too difficult either, but I just don't know what those concepts were supposed to have been. I tried to read into it, but I just didn't get very far. I take that to mean that there wasn't too terribly much there.There was an added difficulty in the fact that I didn't like any of the characters. If you can't stand any of the people in a story, then you don't really care about what happens to them, and you start to skip large sections of stories that involve them.... Anyway, I'll say this: It was OK. If you can look beyond the miserable people and the almost non-existent message, then you'll like it just fine.
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Summary: A true classic
Review: Very few books have that intangible quality that elevates them from the merely great to the status of classic. THE GREAT GATSBY has, along with all of its obvious strengths, that undefinable "something" that makes it unforgettable. Of my other favorite books, only THE TRIUMPH AND THE GLORY, perhaps SOPHIE'S CHOICE, and Ayn Rand's stunning THE FOUNTAINHEAD compare to Fitzgerald's masterpiece.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: As I type, I'm beating against my deadline for a journal of responses to The Great Gatsby, which I finished about two weeks ago, but still cannot decipher enough. Fitzgerald writes in the most crystalline prose, as somebody said, and if one is looking for something mesmerizingly well-written, this novel should be approached. However, I give it only four stars because eventhough I can relate to Nick Carraway's perception of Gatsby, and his opinion of him (his dream is very noble, and he lives in a fantasy world, never letting the outside world crush this), I'm still perturbed and annoyed by the rest of the characters. I will have to read it in another time, so as not to feel under AP pressure as I try to interpret/analyze it. Finally, I believe the story is moving once one remembers all those disgustingly superficial and supercilious people do have souls.When I started this book , the Jazz Age fascinated me, but now it kind of disgusts me.
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Summary: Beautiful prose yet shallow book
Review: I found it practically impossible to enjoy this book because it is about shallow, careless and carefree people. Because the characters are extremely dull and flippant about life, I found the book itself to be a dull read. It was like trying to swallow terrible tasting medicine. This book certainly does not attempt to tackle any of life's problems. I give this book two stars rather than one, however, because Fitzgerald deserves credit for the mystical, beautifully flowing,light, prose which he uses. I particularly enjoyed the beginning of the chapter of the garden party at Gatsby's mansion, as well as the end of the novel.
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Summary: Interesting Symbolism Saves A Banal Story From Obscurity
Review: There's something about the American literary critic that seems to equate short and lowbrow with good. At least that's the feeling you get in school when forced to read novels like this one and by authors like Steinbeck and Hemingway. The interesting prose and slathered-thick symbolism livened up this tale of a man who is DETERMINED to have everything. The reason I didn't care about his struggle is because this nouveau riche tycoon just wants the standard stuff: acceptance, $$$ and girls. I guess the moral of the story is that being shallow and possessive can lead to tragic consequences, but duh!, you're already supposed to know that.
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Summary: Outstanding fiction!
Review: Fitgerald's Great Gatsby is truly a work of art. His use of figurative language in this piece is what makes it flow and sound like poetry. He builds the characters to the point where you feel you had met before. This is no easy task in a book that is under 200 pages long. Great book to have and read over and over again.
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Summary: Amazingly exudes warmth and profundity
Review: Holden was right-- Fitzgerald would have been a great person to have around. I devoured the book...the way words were unfolded made me wish I had written them myself. It may strike some people as a what's-the-point book, but I think it possesses great intensity, not to mention it's plain fun to read. A tragedy that is melancholy but funny; light but insightful; and most of all, I think it's about something we all can relate to: unreciprocated, almost delusional kind of love that in the end, whether rightly or wrongly, robs life of all its purpose and vitality.
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Summary: Surprislingy Wonderful
Review: I was very surprised by how good of a book this was. It was assigned by my english teacher during my senior year. Up until this time I never really had any assigned readings i any of my classes. I wasn't thrilled with the first book we had to read, which was MY ANTONIA. I found that one boring and rather uninteresting at times. I expected the same from GATSBY. I am happy to say I was wrong to think this book was no good. It doesn't seem like anything special. It has a simple story about a wealthy man who falls in love with a woman he can't have, told from the point of view of another character who is friends of them both. Seems boring, eh? Well, I don't know how Fitzgereld did it, but he wrote the book in such a way that it was both easy to read and fun. Normally even good books like the HOBBIT and 1984 have moments that you wish could end so you could continue with the book. Not this one. Fitzgereld writes only what we, the reader, need to know. Everything seems important and everything makes you want to continue on. My only complaint would be that very rarely does anything truly spectacualr happens, which one would normally expect from a classic. But in the end, it doesn't seem to matter. It's a good book, plain and simple.
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Summary: An intricate but realistic fantasy!
Review: At first i did not see the big picture of what the book was trying to convey. But after the useless imagery, i understood that the goal to have success, love, and happiness is driven by those who have big dreams. Happiness is transitory in a world where there are carousing parties filled with drunkeness and infildelity with your loved ones.
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