Rating: Summary: I personally didn't like it at all! Review: I though it was a really bad book, and most of the other people that read it in school for L.A. with me also did not enjoy it. It could have left out many of the chapters in my opinion, most of them had no point. I read some of the other reviews, they said they couldn't put it down, but I dreaded the days we had to read from it for homework. I also didn't like his style of writing, the symolism was okay, but too deep for some people. I would not recomend this book to anyone.
Rating: Summary: Good Book! Review: The Great Gatsby is an excellent book which keenly depicts the pre-Depression era. As a junior in high school, my class read this book which I thought was going to be the typical boring English book but it is truly a well-written work.I believed the book starts out pretty slow but as reader gets deeper and deeper into the book, they can find mystery, intrigue, romance, and other subplots. Readers can find the mystery which surrounds Gatsby. He only reveals bits and pieces about his past which leaves the reader to speculate some things about him. The intrigue and romance mingle into the odd love relationships of Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, and Myrtle. Did Daisy truly love Gatsby? Does Tom even care about his mistress Myrtle? All the confusion will make a head-on-collision toward the end of the book. So even if you do not get any of that symbolism or delve deeper into the novel, it's still worthwhile to read this American classic.
Rating: Summary: terrific Review: if the book doesn't immediately grab you, it soon will. amazing. too bad that in his time, fitzgerald didn't get the credit he so richly deserved.
Rating: Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK!!! Review: This book was incredibly interesting. I could hardly put it down. I would recommed this book to anyone who loves to read. Excellent book!
Rating: Summary: horrible Review: no understandin
Rating: Summary: A GREAT BOOK Review: This is one of my favorite books of all time. It is fascinating and well written. I'm in high school, and I read it as a junior. It was easy to understand, but I did not understand all the symbolism. I recommend this book to people of all ages. It is a true classic.
Rating: Summary: A novel that presents the unattainable love. Review: Gatsby's love for Daisy was unmeasurable. His strive to achieve wealth in order to have her approval was fascinating. Gatsby never gave up the hope of realizing his dream of being with his one true love.
Rating: Summary: The Great "Great Gatsby" Review: I read Fitzgerald's masterpiece in English class last year. Only six weeks after we finished "The Great Gatsby," it was ranked as the second-best English novel of the century, and I wasn't surprised. The book is concise, with the language for the most part easy to understand so that it becomes possible to try to find the novel's deeper meanings and implications. Plus it really helps that I'm a resident of Queens, New York. Using descriptive clues from the text, I was able to apply the plot to where I live. For example, the big wasteland that's in the book and which was supposedly located in Corona includes the area above which Shea Stadium has since been built.
Rating: Summary: A well written and intriguing novel. Review: The novel was pleasent to read and easy to understand. Gatsby's ambition to obtain social equality in order to win Daisy's approval is a testimony of one mans drive to reach true love. Through his determination, hope is kepted alive and is taught to be a key motivator in the pursuit of dreams and goals.
Rating: Summary: Interesting... Review: An interesting read. The style of writing is descriptive and not very difficult to understand. The comment on Daisy by Gatsby "Her voice is full of money" is explanatory itself. And the last paragraph where the author describes the future as a green pasture which eludes us , but we strech our arms further every evening and one fine morning .... is brilliant.
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