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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Start date: January 15, 2017

Finish date: February 14, 2017

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Why we're reading this: Came in first in the Poll!
Genre: Novel
Published: April 10, 1925
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Genre: Novel
Published: April 10, 1925

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Nov 04, 2010 Harry rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ok, classic, social-criticism

Great writing by Mr. Fitzgerald and I understand and appreciate most of the symbolism and the social commentary weaved by the story. The story line was fine, but I just had a difficult time maintaining my interest in the story as I just couldn't get into the characters. It is a bit of a let down for such an acclaimed novel, but I plan to put it on my read-again list for some future date. Perhaps my take of the work will be different at that reading.

I just completed it again...what a different bo ...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Yair Ben-Zvi rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites

Up until the middle I felt this book was lacking...but as it wound down (or rather up) to its conclusion, I quickly realized that this is one of those few books worth all the hype surrounding it. Whether or not Fitzgerald was aware of it or not, the whole book feels like a dark prophecy, a gloomy harbinger of the emptiness of American decadence in the twenties. The great crash, the great war, all feel part of the tragic and epic metanarrative that Fitzgerald seemed almost to prefigure. Hollow an ...more

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Aug 08, 2010 Aurelie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, favorites, historical-fiction

The Great Gatsby is another classic of modern American Literature. Love it or hate it, you can't deny it.
Personnally, this is one of my favorite books. I'm not american and maybe that's a reason why I love it so much. There's something different, disorienting about this book. First of all, it is set in the 1920's, an often fantasized period (artistic and cultural dynamism, jazz, dance, etc). The characters are from the upper-class: they party, drink, dance, cheat on their wife or husband, and u ...more

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