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The mark of great fiction writing for me is the ability to capture a moment in time and make it feel utterly real, and Fitzgerald managed it perfectly here. He depicted the underbelly of America's most hedonistic era in a way that, more than anything, is utterly necessary. Deserving of its reputation.
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Chosen for my reading group. I found it far too artistic, a triumph of style over substance but eventually it unveiled itself as a moral tale, criticising society of the time and still significant in today's "celeb" culture.
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Read this for the first time since college and was surprised at how much I had totally forgotten. Meticulously crafted (maybe too much so)and beautifully written, but somehow a little... eeeyhh.
May 03, 2011
Mirja
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