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O Grande Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald,

Fernanda César (Tradução)

Carlos Bravo (Capa)

3.92 · Rating details · 3,543,942 ratings · 63,497 reviews

O Grande Gatsby talvez seja, como alguns afirmaram, o único romance perfeito. Ao relêlo, espantamonos sempre com a sua brevidade: não é muito mais longo do que um conto de Henry James. T. S. Eliot julgouo o único grande passo no romance americano desde a morte de James. Não deu origem a uma tradição americana. O livro mal delineado, com calão e que alcança grande sucesso é ...more

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Published February 2000 by Abril/Controljornal (first published 1925)

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Jul 27, 2012 Ariel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

ALL OF YOU GO READ THIS.
ITS WONDERFUL.

It was sadder than I thought it would be.. but it was beautiful. The ambiance is what got me.. the world I was in just AHH SO GOOD.

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Aug 02, 2011 Lyn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

As clear a portrait of a generation as has ever been put to pen, and Fitzgerald has done even better by making much of the qualities of this novel timeless, shining a bright light on all that it right, and much that is wrong, with our society and our culture.

Complex, multi-layered, this is also subtle and simple - but subtle like a jazz movement, intricate in its performance and difficult to grasp all at once.

*** 2019 Reread - I watched the 2013 film and needed to revisit this wonderful book.

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Jun 25, 2014 Lisa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..."

The first time I read this novel, I was about a decade younger than the protagonists, and I was mesmerised. All I saw was wealth, glitter, doomed love stories, fast cars, big mansions, secret affairs and emotions running high, criminals getting ...more

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Oct 26, 2018 Nick rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Gatsby deserved better.

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Nov 01, 2019 leslie hamod rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The jazz age was at its hight. A man of little means rents a home and becomes friends with a very rich and partying man. Or are they friends. Did they, each in their own way, use each other? And all for a woman. Another classic upon which Hollywood has made its mark. But excess, deceit and lies are the basis of this book. The ugliest of human nature tears it's head.
A beautiful woman and a dead woman, morals and scrupulous morality, which is the triumphant.
What begins as a celebration of the ...more

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Jun 18, 2013 Marina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: food-for-thought, in-one-word-good, historical-fiction

Great.
Now I'm getting pissed off at classics too. I seem to be upping my game.

How much shallowness can one person stand.
Well, if I feel betrayed, imagine Jay.

Newsflash sweetheart, when a man wants to give you the world, the least you can do is send a flower to his funeral.

I suppose he would have had you not destroyed him.

I've never respected a fictional character more.

And the best part is that now, we don't even have the excuse of a battle between the old wealth and the new rich of the 1920s. ...more

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Jul 22, 2008 Martine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: modern-fiction, film, north-american, early-twentieth-century

Like many people, I first read The Great Gatsby when I was too young to understand it. I appreciated the beauty of Fitzgerald's prose and his gift for describing scenes, but disliked quite a few of his characters and couldn't fathom why they inspired in each other the degree of devotion and obsession that they seemed to do. I also found the narrator a bit dull and the ending a huge let-down. In short, I was convinced Fitzgerald was a good writer (I actually went on to check out some of his short Like many people, I first read The Great Gatsby when I was too young to understand it. I appreciated the beauty of Fitzgerald's prose and his gift for describing scenes, but disliked quite a few of his characters and couldn't fathom why they inspired in each other the degree of devotion and obsession that they seemed to do. I also found the narrator a bit dull and the ending a huge let-down. In short, I was convinced Fitzgerald was a good writer (I actually went on to check out some of his short stories immediately afterwards), but couldn't see what all the Gatsby fuss was about.

I think I can see it now, having reread the book a couple of times since then. Yes, it's a novel about the American Dream -- a rags-to-riches story about a poor man who re-invents himself as a mysterious millionaire in hopes of winning the heart of the beautiful rich girl he has fancied ever since they were young. But it's also about the shallowness of that dream, and about the corruption inherent in it -- about the lengths to which people will go for success and acceptance, not necessarily in an admirable way. It's about the gap between dreams and reality, between reality and perception, and about how modern, status-obsessed America is increasingly on the perception side of the gap. It's an indictment of materialism, of the thin veneer of wealth which hides the moral decay underneath. And last but not least, it's a story about what makes us who we are. About how we are shaped by our pasts and backgrounds, and how, no matter how far we run and how hard we try to re-invent ourselves, we are what we are, what we always were. It's a depressing message for the would-be self-improvers among us, but a true one, I think.

Of course, the book also works on a shallower level. The Gatsby-Daisy romance is fascinating, even if both of its protagonists ultimately turn out to be rather vapid and deluded. And Gatsby's dream is nothing if not powerful. If it ends up failing, that's because it was based on wrong assumptions -- assumptions arising from ignorance and greed as well as hope. There's a lot of greed and ignorance in the book, and it makes for memorable (albeit heavily flawed) characters. (I actually believe Jordan Baker is the most interesting character in the book. I'd have loved to see a bit more of her, although I guess it's precisely her elusiveness which makes her so fascinating.) For his part, old-fashioned Nick proves to be an excellent narrator, whose 'provincial squeamishness' adds just the right kind of perspective to all the modern goings-on described in the book. Nick may be unspectacular and unreliable, but to my mind, he's one of the best narrators in the history of modern fiction. Now that I've learnt to appreciate the novel, his disappointment and disillusionment will stay with me for ever, as will his sad resignation. (If, in fact, that is what it is. One never knows with this endlessly subtle novel.) ...more

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Dec 12, 2016 Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, cheating-cheaters-who-cheat, made-me-think, bingo-2016

It's a very gloomy view of a very glittery world.

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The Great Gatsby is an early 20th century classic novel, an extraordinary exploration of a shallow society and the superficial scramble for material wealth and social status, and a man who tries to play the game while trying to recapture a lost love and loses himself in the process.

James Gatz changes his name to Jay Gatsby, reinvents himself, gradually lifts himself to vast wealth (through unsavory means) and a higher social sphere. But he still ...more

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Sep 10, 2016 Nishat rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: delicate-as-poetry, classic

F. Scott Fitzgerald draws an enigmatic millionaire and his sincere passion for a beautiful, but insincere woman in an unprecedented flourishing era. Today happiness largely defined by the acquisition of material things, has been epitomized by this timeless novel.

The Great Gatsby displays Fitzgerald's personal attempt at articulating his colliding feelings towards the Roaring Twenties. In many ways, Fitzgerald like Nick Carraway found the Jazz Age sensuous and restlessly exciting, and like ...more

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Apr 27, 2018 • Lindsey Dahling • rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: bitchin

Jay Gatsby is the most cinnamony Slytherin cinnamon roll to ever walk the literary earth and anyone who disagrees can CASH ME OUTSIDE.

Fitzgeralds prose is flawless. Every time I read The Great GatsbyI feel like Ive been sucked right into a 1920s party (which is sometimes alarming because I look terrible with short hair). Its dreamy, its romantic, its beautiful. And because of it, you dont even realize youre reading a book full of horrible people until the end.

Ive read this book so many times now ...more

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May 08, 2016 Brina rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

One of the themes of my reading this year is to reread the classic books I read while in school and view them through adult eyes. It is in this light that I read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and rated it 3.5 stars.

Taking place during the roaring twenties in Long Island, New York, the story features the up and coming generation, veterans of the Great War and adherents of the American Dream. Our narrator is Nick Carraway a war veteran who has moved east to seek his future in the stocks One of the themes of my reading this year is to reread the classic books I read while in school and view them through adult eyes. It is in this light that I read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and rated it 3.5 stars.

Taking place during the roaring twenties in Long Island, New York, the story features the up and coming generation, veterans of the Great War and adherents of the American Dream. Our narrator is Nick Carraway a war veteran who has moved east to seek his future in the stocks and bonds market. Although young, he appears out of place amongst the frivolity taking place around him. It is in this light that the story occurs.

Most people most likely know about the story of Tom and Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby aka James Gatz. All have come to New York to seek the American Dream in one way or another. Usually I am drawn to rags to riches stories like Gatsby's, but I am going to focus on the two elements of the book that had me rate the book lower than other classics.

The first element I did not like was the love affairs that took place throughout the book. Tom and Daisy appear happily married on the surface. At first meeting, they invite Nick to their home in an attempt to set him up with professional golfer Jordan Baker. They have an apparent warm home and beautiful daughter, and, yet, neither is happy. Rather than get on with their lives, each would rather be gallivanting around with others and face the consequences later. This was a major sticking point for me because personally part of the American Dream is bettering oneself to leave a better life for future generations, yet the Buchanans chose to be products of the frivolous decade they lived in.

Fitzgerald paints a picture of life in the twenties that has endured; however, it was a turnoff to me.
The other element that I did not care for was the disjointed story telling. We do not find out completely about Gatsby and his background until near the end of the novel. Usually, the uncertainty makes me want to read pages quickly to find out the twist, but in this particular case, I would have liked to have known sooner, allowing the rest of the plot to shape itself out. Looking back, I believe the disjointed plot parallels the disjointed ways of the Buchanans and Gatsby's lives; I tend to prefer a more straight forward story.

What does make Gatsby a classic for me, and I can see why this book is read in schools because it leads to discussion, is the imagery, especially the green light at the end of the dock, which could symbolize many things. For me, this green light is the American Dream, the seeking of a better life, which is what Gatsby, the Buchanans, and Nick Carraway were striving for in some way during the novel. I can now say that I read The Great Gatsby for the first time in twenty years; yet, the story isn't as timeless for me as other classics I have read. ...more

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Oct 07, 2008 Robin rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This was a bookclub read that I've not read for many many years. It was of course assigned reading in both high school and college. I remember pouring over all the various aspects of this book and picking it a part like disecting a frog.

Now that I'm older....much older. This reading broght a whole new light on this book for me. And I'm sorry to say....I think this book is HIGHLY overrated.

This book was never a sucess (either critically or via sales) when it was released and I think that it ...more

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Jul 13, 2016 Kevin Ansbro rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, romance, parable, hedonism, morality, immorality

I read this, a tale of social climbing and dark secrets, when I was a teenager with a Farrah Fawcett poster Blu-Tacked to my bedroom wall.
I really must rediscover it, as I remember it as being so beautifully-written.

At the time, I derived some satisfaction in realising that the idle rich probably weren't all having an exhilarating time at their mansion parties, despite outward appearances.

Fitzgerald lifts the lid on the shallowness of the nouveau riche of 1920s' America.
My book had a photograph ...more

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Sep 19, 2011 Perry rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mina-favoritböcker, books-most-loved

Re-reading Gatsby Restored My Belief in the Life-Altering Magic of Classic Literature

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

I try not to applaud too loudly for a novel, afraid that my praise may be cheapened as simply adulation. I cannot help myself here. Having recently reread The Great Gatsby I feel rejuvenated, as if I've been cleansed of my cynicism of literature, that I've been restored with the beliefs of my ...more

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Jan 23, 2016 Brian rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I firmly believe that "The Great Gatsby" is a novel that cannot be fully appreciated in a first read. I read it for the first time after college, and hated it. Now, 10 years later I have read it half a dozen times, and find it to be a richer and richer experience every time.
Fitzgerald was a talented writer, and there are times that the prose in this text is breathtakingly good. But that is not what makes this novel stand out as one of the greatest pieces of truly American literature. Rather it ...more

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Feb 04, 2008 Madeline rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: the-list

Apparently the colors yellow and white represent sickness and goodness, respectively. I learned this from my Honors English friends after I had read the book on my own, and was very thankful I didn't have to read this for a class and be forced to write papers analyzing the terrifically brilliant symbolism and prose etc etc. It would have completed ruined an otherwise extremely good and exciting story.

PS: The character Daisy appears good and innocent, but at her core is actually rotted and evil. ...more

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Oct 22, 2007 Brad rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Car owners

This book becomes far better when you take all of Gatsby's mystery and just think of him as Batman. The whole book falls into place!

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Dec 14, 2012 F rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: seen-movie, 2015, usa

I loved this book. I finished it in one day.

I wanted to dislike Gatsby but i did actually really liked him. I hated Tom. And really hated Daisy.

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Dec 11, 2018 Manuel Antão rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1981

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.

Ruthless Pursuit: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

(Original review, 1981-04-30)

The Great Gatsby is essentially a love story. Daisy turns out to be as unattainable to Jay as Beatrice was to Dante but this being the US, the hero doesn't elevate his idol to muse status; instead he embarks on a ruthless pursuit that ends up destroying him.

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Nov 04, 2019 sarah xoxo rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2019, audiobook

me: cursing the australian school system for not forcing me to read this before now

also me: glad that they didn't force me to read this because I hated every book i was forced to read and analyse every sentence.

but also, I don't think I would mind analysing this book. At first glance, this is a story about unlikable characters and wealth with a meandering plot. But beneath the surface (and after a few crash course videos) it has a hidden layer that I feel I have only just began to scratch the ...more

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Jun 12, 2011 Jan-Maat added it · review of another edition

Shelves: usa, novel, 20th-century, fiction

East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet

I suppose there is a lot that could be said about The Great Gatsby, and probably an awful lot more that has been said about it. Plainly it is not the Great American novel - because it does not have enough whales in it, I think, after an approximate count, it may not have any, not even one of the small ones.

Instead of whales this is the story told by the narrator Nick who loves title character Gatsby who loves Daisy who is married to ...more

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Jul 26, 2011 Andrew Smith rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Boring, boring, boring. Started slow, got slower, speeded up a fraction, mercifully ended. If the story hadn't been so short I'd have given up before the end, as the tedium of turning the next page is sure to have overwhelmed me. Well, maybe I'm being a little harsh... but I didn't like it.

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Jun 06, 2018 Esil rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

I read The Great Gatsby as a university student, and I dont remember that it made a big impression on me. I decided to give it a try as an audiobook, and Im glad I did. The writing is really strong and the story seems simple but is ultimately quite subtle disparate threads come together perfectly by the end. The characters are recognizable and theres plenty of food for thought about the lure of wealth, power and nostalgia. Given the time when it was written, there are a few anachronisms that ...more

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Feb 01, 2019 Merphy Napier rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: four-stars, classics, adult

I loved how flawed these characters were. I loved the setting and overall message. In general, I really enjoyed this book and find there's a lot worth discussing in it. I did feel the ending was abrupt and slightly unsatisfying and I don't revere it as a literary masterpiece like so many others do, but I did enjoy reading it.

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Dec 22, 2014 Hannah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, owned

Every time I read this book, I fall more and more in love.

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Mar 06, 2013 Navessa rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

Yup, three stars. Again. I don't know why I thought it'd be different this time. This book is always ruined for me by the completely uninspired main character. Does he have a single thought within his head? Nope. He's nothing but an outside observer to the frenetic chaos that rages all around him. And because of this, I always feel detached from the story and the drama surrounding Daisy and Gatsby.

Womp, womp. I wonder if there are retellings of this...

*wanders off*

This review can also be found ...more

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Sep 27, 2011 Nandakishore Varma rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, literature

Mr. Gatsby, come off it. Get a life. She simply isn't worth it, yaar.

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Aug 16, 2007 Diane rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, classics, movie-adaptation

Wow. This book wins the award for Most Changed Opinion On Second Reading.

Like most Americans, I was assigned The Great Gatsby in high school (the book that launched a billion English essays!), and it is considered one of the Great American Novels. But my 17-year-old self wasn't impressed, and I've spent the last two decades thinking this book was lame and overhyped.**

I'm so glad I decided to reread Gatsby, because in addition to being a beautiful little novel I think it's still relevant. The Wow. This book wins the award for Most Changed Opinion On Second Reading.

Like most Americans, I was assigned The Great Gatsby in high school (the book that launched a billion English essays!), and it is considered one of the Great American Novels. But my 17-year-old self wasn't impressed, and I've spent the last two decades thinking this book was lame and overhyped.**

I'm so glad I decided to reread Gatsby, because in addition to being a beautiful little novel I think it's still relevant. The issues of social class, greed and corruption are as potent as ever, especially when considering the global financial crisis we're still dealing with. The doomed love affair of Daisy and Gatsby was tragic, but I was also moved by Fitzgerald's portrayal of Old Money vs. New Money, and how there is a chasm between the classes that can't be breached, no matter one's earnestness and heart.

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness and whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

I loved Gatsby's earnestness. I related to it. His plan for success was so sweet and eager -- he wanted to exercise more, study more, save more, practice elocution and read more books. He loved Daisy and everything he did was for her. There is a heartbreaking scene toward the end of the book when he stood outside her window all night to make sure she was OK. I agreed with Nick when he said that Gatsby was "worth the whole damn bunch put together."

It's interesting that this book was published in 1925, but not much has changed in terms of the rich and the poor in America, and the power that wealth and class brings. At the end of the book, I understood why Nick was so disillusioned with his social circle in New York that he left it behind and moved back to the Midwest. (Since I am from the Midwest, I admit I am biased on this point.) But I think Fitzgerald was trying to get at the distrust between the upper class and the lower classes, which still very much exists. In that sense, The Great Gatsby is a Great American Novel.

**Question: Many readers say they didn't like Gatsby in high school, but later appreciated it as an adult. Should we stop forcing it on teenagers and save it for college folks? Or should literature be forced on students, even if they won't appreciate it?

Another example of a book that was assigned in high school was Ethan Frome, which I didn't like and it scared me away from Edith Wharton for 20 years. This is a travesty, because Wharton is now one of my favorite American writers and I'm irritated that I didn't realize it sooner. Maybe high schools should also stop forcing Frome on students. ...more

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Feb 21, 2016 7jane rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: especially older first-time readers; for a view on American dream's light and darkness

(a 'book most of my GR friends have on their list' #1 book
How many really have the 'blue face' cover - how many just chose it because they found it beautiful, or because they couldn't/wouldn't change it? *shrug*
This book's Finnish title is 'The Gold Hat', but I don't like that one much, one reason why I got this one instead.)

I think reading this book, ~~"Trimalchio In West Egg"~~ (which echoes the book by Petronius), ~~"Under The Red, White, And Blue"~~, "The Great Gatsby", at my present age for the ...more

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Jul 22, 2019 Olivia (Stories For Coffee) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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