The Great Gatsby in CPL's Book a Week Challenge

Apr 12, 2012 Sunny rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: all-boxall, 1315-read, epub

October 31, 2012

OMG - Leonardo DiCaprio as GATSBY?!?!?!?! WHAT?!?!?!?!?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092/
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September 29, 2012

Now that I’ve partied with Jay Gatsby, I’m wondering what is wrong with me. Because, almost all of my GR friends have rated this four or five stars, and I’m stretching it a bit with three stars.

Nine chapters. The first seven of them were yawnfests for me - it was like Less Than Zero except based in the twenties. Then, the last tw ...more

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Aug 04, 2011 Carrie rated it really liked it

Okay, okay... I know. This is a classic work of American Literature. And Fitzgerald writes really beautiful prose. But when I'm reading, I need to have a character to root for--and I could not find one in this entire novel. Pretty much everyone is either cheating or helping someone cheat. Still... it's a nice snapshot of the "Jazz Age" and I love all the symbolism and the richness of the prose, so I can't say I didn't like it. I did. I just didn't love it because I couldn't really get behind any ...more

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Sep 10, 2011 Katie Walton rated it liked it

Shelves: not-ya, honestly-i-lost-interest, required-reading

I didn't honestly value the beauty of the words in this book until I saw the movie. That's weird isn't it? Whatever, I'm not here to spread lies.

I really respect what Fitzgerald did, but I wish my first experience with this had been as an adult not as a high school student being forced to read it. ...more

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