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The Great Gatsby
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Genre: Novel
Published: April 10, 1925

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Radwa
Jan 24, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
ريفيو فيديو للرواية والفيلم: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPH0...

This book exceeded my expectations.

It started out okay, and almost halfway through, I was set on giving it only 3 stars rating, since it was okay. But the last three chapters turned everything around, and it was a whirlwind of emotions. and I don't regret giving it 5 stars.

It's my first Fitzgerald, and I loved how poetic his writings was, I felt like I wanted to take some paragraphs out of the book and just stare at them everyd
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Josh Caporale
"The Great Gatsby" is viewed to today's society as the definitive novel about America in the 1920s. In all honesty, I would disagree. I would say that it does depict its characters and their flaws with a raw sense of truth, but I did not find any of them to be likable. Told from Nick Carraway, whom I felt was indulgent and found himself to be a voice of reason, this novel makes mention to the parties Gatsby holds, mainly because he is hopeful that a former flame, Daisy Buchanan, will come back t ...more
Radwa
Dec 15, 2021 rated it really liked it
English Review below.

في قراءتي الأولى قبل بضع سنوات ، أعطيتها خمس نجوم ، لكن في هذه القراءة الثانية ، سأمنحها 4 نجوم ، لأنني على الرغم من أنني ما زلت أقدر أسلوب الكتابة الساحر ، إلا أنني أستطيع أن أرى بشكل أكثر وضوحًا المشكلات المتعلقة بالشخصيات .

لا تزال رواية فيتزجيرالد الوحيدة التي قرأتها وأنا بحاجة إلى تصحيح ذلك قريبًا ، لقد قلت من قبل ، "لقد أحببت مدى شاعرية كتاباته ، شعرت أنني أردت إخراج بعض الفقرات من الكتاب والتحديق فيها كل يوم ، لأنها من أجمل أوصاف الحياة والعواطف البشرية "ولا يزال هذا ا
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Maria
May 29, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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This second reading of this book (after the required reading in high school) years later was enough to catapult this book into one of my favorites of all time. Fitzgerald's writing will absolutely cut you to your soul. ...more
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