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This is really a good read ... but I'm not exactly sure why. It's actually a little bit depressing, as the story goes ... but the writing is wonderful. There are some beautiful phrases and paragraphs. The story is a basic story of certain people, but even more, it is a story of America just after WWI, and the American Dream. Altogether a fairly easy read, but a very deep subject matter. Known as "the Great American Novel", I love author John Green's assessment that it is so named, not so much be
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From page 48: "He smiled understandingly--much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with the quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it has prec
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In this review I'm not going to comment on the writing style, the plot or the characters. You must be thinking--DON'T CALL IT A REVIEW THEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I'm just going to talk about how this book appealed to me, because the rest has been over-analyzed and written and re-written about.
Gatsby is a lover. He is just that. He dedicates his entire life to the one he loved. All his actions, all his achievements and all the troubles he undertakes are just for his love. So that he could look at her ...more
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