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Great Gatsby, the; (Us Import Ed.)

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0743273567
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Les
few weeks ago
"The Great Gatsby" has been praised until death by virtually all critics - and it deserves every word of it. This is a novel that speaks of craftsmanship, passion and emotion, and remains one of only a rare few books to leave me almost unable to speak for a good long while afterwards. As the title suggests, Jay Gatsby is the core of this story. A dreamer to the extreme, he is obsessed with the...more
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few weeks ago
My AP lit teacher once told me that no one could ever possibly love The Great Gatsby as much as I do, and I'd have to agree, because this book is a little bit of a sickness with me. Anyone who's ever talked to me for five minutes will tell you that this book is the foundation of my life. I don't know what it is--maybe the 200 (literally) times I've read it, maybe it's the huge poster I have in my...more
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few weeks ago
This was unexpected. On paper it's precisely the kind of thing I like and I've always been fond of the "Jazz-age" too. So it was a real shock when, halfway through it, I began to realise it wasn't quite as groovy as I'd been led to believe. By the time I'd finished it I totally reassessed that view. It was worse. I truly wish I could remove all memory of this from my brain. Except...more
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few weeks ago
***SPOILER ALERT***This is one of the novels I think of as American classics along with "Catcher in the Rye", "On the Road", and "Huck Finn". It tells us the story of a self made man who throws great parties at his mansion on Long Island soul with the sole purpose of attracting the woman he loved and lost before he went off to serve in the War. She has married another man and also lives on Long...more
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few weeks ago
I've just finished reading The Great Gatsby, and i LOVED it! As with all of my favourite novels, it was completely different to how i had expected it be, a real surprise. Gatsby is at once a stubborn, self-indulgent man, and yet incredibly vulnerable and strangely lovable. He is the underdog whose single-minded determination to better himself is the classic ideal of the 'American Dream'. And...more
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