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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald,

Marcus D'Amico (Narrator)

Start date: April 10, 2013

Finish date: June 10, 2013

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Why we're reading this: It's being remade with Leonardio DiCaprio and is due out May 10, 2013. The original version with Robert R…more
[close] It's being remade with Leonardio DiCaprio and is due out May 10, 2013. The original version with Robert Redford was watched when the Burlington B&N group read it.

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Dec 21, 2012 Simon Wong rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Just a short reflection of my reading English novel.I wish I will rewrite and develop it into a full length one.

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The name of the novel always has its way to get on your ears, along with its fame; casual mentions in comments of columns, book reviews, or even music, JAZZ, of course. Me not except. But the real attempt of diving into it delayed till the late spring of this year.

A little copy of the novel in English was found in the bookstore shelf. I bought it at that noon, immediately. Just a short reflection of my reading English novel.I wish I will rewrite and develop it into a full length one.

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The name of the novel always has its way to get on your ears, along with its fame; casual mentions in comments of columns, book reviews, or even music, JAZZ, of course. Me not except. But the real attempt of diving into it delayed till the late spring of this year.

A little copy of the novel in English was found in the bookstore shelf. I bought it at that noon, immediately. Then, I get to realize that to read the original is a brave try for people like me, who has not yet nurtured a habit of reading English novels. If the effort is big in the language part, it must be huge in the zeal part that is essential to keep your mind on the constant heat to drive the literary mechanics in its delicate and dynamic process, which, particularly, works in Fitzgerald's case.

So the course of reading the novel became separated and serrate, developing into a kind of self-discipline; you know, the reviews of book, music, and even movie, currently, are still on, murmuring to your ears the name of this very novel, successfully serving as a strict reminder of my laziness or, precisely, the lack of that zeal.

However, once I thumbed open the pages where the bookmark rested in between, it was always demanding to make ends meet in plot or the characters' names. I don't want to ruin it. It is the The Great Gatsby. But I failed to realize that it was not one indulgent decision that was made, but a serial of. In the early time of working on the novel, as long as I found myself rusted in the story, I would retreate ten pages back or directly to the beginning of the chapter (which at most is TWO). Till now---- the whole expanse of summer along with brief autumn passed with no contributions to the thickness of the pages I've successfully read----when the novel was resumed and eventually on a smooth tempo, I began to thank the early time of repeating pages. The first two chapters have been seasoned for me, and luckily sharpen my taste of the beauty and flavors technically weaved in the text.

Now is the last chapter, which I will witness as the tragic curtain falls. Well, little can I comment before another reading is done, which, as many other have emotionally claimed, is not far enough. But the happiness is real. I am now inch-away from completing a literary journey of a well-written novel, and the zeal that is required to have books of the like seems seeding in my veil:) ...more

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