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Creo que es ésta una de las mejores novelas que he leído nunca; mientras la historia se desarrolla tienes la sensación de que no sobra ni falta una coma. Es exacta en el ritmo, en la construcción, el manejo de los tiempos, y lírica en la narrativa. Para mí he aquí el retrato, en una historia única, de la gran injusticia que supone la riqueza, del enorme abismo que separa a los nacidos ricos y a aquellos que no; del egoísmo innato de un grupo sobre el conjunto de la sociedad, y como los no afortu
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ستتبع حلمك اللذيذ بشغف و قوه و تحلق عاليا نحوه و تثرى و تعلو ابعد و ابعد و اعلى من الافق الرائع ثم تهوى الى القرار بطلقه برصاصه تصيبك انت وحدك هي قدرك المرسوم بعنايه ...و لن يتذكرك احد ستكون عاريا لوحدك....غاتسبي العظيم كان يرسم طريقه بيديه ابتداءا من اللاشيء و حتى ابعد من الخيال و لكنه وقف وحيدا في كل وقت ...خذلته اماله و احلامه و تبعثرت على يد اشباه الرجال و النساء...اللامبالين ...الذين في دوره تلاشيهم و برودهم و اخفاقاتهم و سلبيتهم المقيته يسحبون معهم خيوط من جمال الحياه و روحها و يسحقونها و
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Book 27 of 2023: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I first read this novel as a high school student. I was not impressed with the characters, storylines, or plot. In fact, the only thing I remember liking about the novel was the length - it was a far shorter story than many of the others I had to read in AP English. 🤪 Needless to say, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Daisy Buchanan made no lasting impression on me.
I’m glad I revisited the story though. Rereading this American classic as an ad ...more
I first read this novel as a high school student. I was not impressed with the characters, storylines, or plot. In fact, the only thing I remember liking about the novel was the length - it was a far shorter story than many of the others I had to read in AP English. 🤪 Needless to say, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Daisy Buchanan made no lasting impression on me.
I’m glad I revisited the story though. Rereading this American classic as an ad ...more
This is a reread for me but I remember almost nothing about the first time I read it in 2016, perhaps I was too young then to appreciate it. I do think this is a great story and I enjoyed the writing style. It is a heartbreaking story really about someone being so caught up in the past and about people failing to show up when it really matters. Interesting. But, at the same time, I don't think any of the characters were fleshed out, other than Gatsby, maybe that was on purpose? I'm glad that I r
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What better way to go into 2020, amarite?
It was strangely melancholic reading it this time,i couldn't help but feel utter compassion and solidarity with Gatsby, for i too often romanticize the mere whisper o things to undeserved levels; there are bad people in this world [read: Daisy and Tom] and then there are the Gatsbys of it, whom i can't condemn -in good conscience- according to our mortal laws; for they live in their own world, far away and disconnected from ours; where sins and virtues ha ...more
It was strangely melancholic reading it this time,i couldn't help but feel utter compassion and solidarity with Gatsby, for i too often romanticize the mere whisper o things to undeserved levels; there are bad people in this world [read: Daisy and Tom] and then there are the Gatsbys of it, whom i can't condemn -in good conscience- according to our mortal laws; for they live in their own world, far away and disconnected from ours; where sins and virtues ha ...more
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