The Great Gatsby

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Summary: Superb book
Review: Quite simply, the greatest novel yet written by an American

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Summary: Easy to Get Into Story
Review: This is a wonderful book that describes a love story set in the 1920's. Gatsby was a man that seemed to always get what he wanted, and he wanted a married woman. Sad ending, but most love stories have to end sadly.

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Summary: My Favorite Book
Review: I enjoyed this book the entire time I read it. The storyline is great. The depiction of the wealthy class with their "old" and new" money was fascinating. Read this book, it won't disappoint.

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Summary: has what some books forget to add
Review: Unlike many novels and stories, Great Gatsby was not dragged down by its meaning. Instead of coating every page with out of place symbols or stupid dialogue, it worked on the art of telling a good story and letting the reader learn his message from that. There were no pretentious passages that distracted the reader from enjoying the book. Everything added to reading the book and learning from it while still being entertained. This is what literature should do.

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Summary: Gatsby is Great
Review: This is considered by most to be the great American novel, and rightfully so. There is some immaturity that comes through in the forced density of the metahpors, but they are like pale and faint freckles on the cheek of Aphrodite, if you will. Fitzgerald manages to keep the significance and literary integrity of "The Great Gatsby" intact, while setting it in one of the most intriguing, romantic, and dramatic stories in American literature. Most of the criticism of this book comes from people who don't look deeply enough into the symbolism of every excruciating detail -- nearly all of which were consciously refined to the point of near perfection in Fitzgerald's many drafts.

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Summary: Best of the Best
Review: Attending Princeton, F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most gifted authors of the 20th century. The Great Gatsby is the American Bible. As the United States takes an even larger part in history, The Great Gatsby becomes more and more important. It is one of the finest pieces of fiction ever produced.

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Summary: Brilliant, Poetic, Devastating
Review: This is a masterpiece of decadance and cruelty, where everyone is looking for happiness and success in all the wrong places. From the superficial Daisy and the bitchy Jordan to the ridiculous men with their thoroughbreds and sports cars, Nick seems to be the only one with any self respect or moral virtue. The famous final page sums up everything F. Scott Fitzgerald needs to tell us in "The Great Gatsby," that from the very beginning, America was doomed to become nothing more than an endless party in which no one even knows why they're even there.

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Summary: Good but depressing
Review: I read this book for the second time when it became a school assignment. I definitely understood it better the second time. Every word in that book had an underlining meaning and that is the disadvantage of this book. You have to read it a second time to understand that meaning. However, the plot was interesting a little slow in the beginning and depressing when finally understood. It certainly characterizes the period well and for that reason I would recommend this book.

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Summary: An incandescent novel that stands out against all literature
Review: Time, love and dreams are what give value to life, and in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald shows us the truth of this statement as if it were frozen in a crystal. Without doubt this book has more depth and expresses more of life in one moment than many novelists capture in entire works. The dream of love that Gatsby lives for reveals so much about life that it motivates thought about what we ourselves value. Set against a background of glitter and sophistication in the 1920s this work is at once fresh but forever a classic. I can't impart the emphasise that says you should read this.

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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.