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Genre Group Read (Humour) - December 2016 - You Are Not So Smart
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What Members Thought
When I first read this book, it was for my 10th grade AP English class, and our teacher, Mr. Ertl, was a huge fan of The Great Gatsby. Our class spent weeks analyzing everything about this book, and then watched the movie. I never understood why this book is considered to be phenomenal. I re-read it last year (2011) and I still couldn't understand why it is considered to be great. The story of the man who is wealthy but can't have the one thing he wants. It may be considered to be a classic, but
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Still my favorite last page of a book, ever.
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And so we beat one, So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ...more
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And so we beat one, So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ...more
This year's book club pick under the "Classics" category. I really loved this book but knowing that Leonardo DiCaprio is playing the title character in the new movie is a little strange for me. I think Leo is a marvelous actor but throughout the book Gatsby's brilliant smile keeps being mentioned and Leo just doesn't have one. I kept picturing Robert Redford who played the original Jay Gatsby. That is a man with a brilliant smile.
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Aug 23, 2010
Abby
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Cathy
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Hecka
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Sam
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it was amazing
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