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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Start date: September 1, 2020

Finish date: September 30, 2020

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Discussion leader: Jenn

Why we're reading this: Chosen in the polls for our September group read.
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Nov 24, 2011 Chris rated it really liked it

The sad story of a boy, his love and an illusion.

I don’t really know how to feel at the end of this book. I’ve heard a lot of good things about it and halfway through, I was kinda disappointed.
Until the confrontation in New York. I think I expected it to be a novel of excited actions that at that moment I realized was more of a “wise” novel.
It broaches the subject of the illusion, created by society, that money could buy you happiness during “The Roaring Twenties” (that actually still runs true ...more

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Sep 18, 2009 Angie Palau rated it really liked it

I read it in high school and had clear recollections of the book, which is a good indication that it had something to offer since much of high school literature is a blur. The story is a powerful indictment of the shallowness of the upper class (set in the Jazz age, but probably no less true now), and it reads rather like a tragedy... I couldn't help pity Gatsby, who - for all his promise and ability - devoted a life to chasing an utterly unworthy dream.

The visuals are wonderful in the book adn ...more

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