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Frances Fitzgerald
Since the last post I finished:
The Great Gatsby
-Considering how much is said about this book I suspect I missed a lot, somehow, sometimes, I miss the opportunity to study a book carefully and get more out of it than reading the story at face value.
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky ...
#10 Gatsby le Magnifique de F.S. Fitzgerald
Bon bouquin. la quête désespérée de Gatsby est très touchante, sa fin également.
... nt
Ethan Frome
The Fall of the House of Usher
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Gone With the Wind
The Graduate
The Great Gatzby
The Green Man
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit or To There and Back
"Hey I just found out the touchstones that don't seem to work, will work if you bracket the book AND the author. Did everyone know that except me, or did I just discover radium ;)?"
No, I think you just discovered radium... :D
... and "Short Stories."
OC: Northanger Abbey, The Mill on the Floss, Notes from Underground, Against Nature EX: The Great Gatsby , Gulag Archipelago Vol. 2, The Black Hole War
Northanger Abbey **½
by Jane Austen
08/09/08
†The Great Gatsby ****½
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
08/10/08
The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 2 ****½ (#185)
by Aleksandr Solzenitsyn
08/13/08
Okay, well I'm going to go for The Great Gatsby - and I think we all know why. Do I still get the next go?
The Great Gatsby
Adam Trask
The Great Gatsby ...but not the first line.
Or is it the first line of something else????
... Letters"
String Quartets
Vanbrugh String Quartet
Harper Collins 13812
F SCOTT FITZGERALD
Excerpt from the Great Gatsby
Read by Rafe Spall
DONALDSON / KAHN
Love me or leave me
The Very Best of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Verve 5474942
RUPERT BROOKE
Love
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... to curl up with and shut out the world to. It flows well even with the the flashes forward and back. Gosford Park meets The Great Gatsby .
... by Willa Cather and have since read others of hers (though not, I'm sorry to say, O Pioneers ~ yet). I also loved The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman, which I can assure you I would have loathed when I was in high school.
ETA ending parenthesis.
... Physician's Visit by Per Olov Enjquist
Tender is the Night, This This Side of Paradise, The Last Tycoon, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - beautiful hardbacks
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene
And, for BookMooch (fi ...
... of my school district for being utterly amazing and he lived up to the hype, so to speak. He taught us everything from The Great Gatsby to For Whom the Bell Tolls to Equus, and even introduced us to the glory of The Godfather. When we read plays we would volunteer for roles (or be ...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
... but, who would suppose better...?), so I've gotten a lot of reading done in the two days I've been here.
22. The Great Gatsby
I looooooooved this book. The imagery, the way the sentences were crafted -- gah -- it was like a dance, or like a roaring 'twenties party the way Fitzge ...
... from whatever copy an Amazon seller has on offer. Condition is key. If you and I both have a first edition of, oh, say, The Great Gatsby , but mine has the dust jacket and yours doesn't, mine is worth more than yours. If we both have a copy of a book, but my (non-existent) kids have ...
... lles
54. Heart of Darkness
55. Young Törless
56. The Secret Agent
57. The Old Wives’ Tale
58. Kokoro
59. The Great Gatsby
60. Mrs. Dalloway
61. To The Lighthouse
62. Orlando
63. All Quiet on the Western Front
64. A Farewell to Arms
65. Cold Comfort Farm
66. ...
Just so you don't keep wondering, it is not The Great Gatsby .
I'm going to take a wild guess and say The Great Gatsby . Maybe.
No, wait, the main character's name is Nick in that. Nevermind.
... first time, so it's a balancing act.
I re-read A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Sparrow every year or two. I re-read The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye about once a year.
I've already started thinking about my reading resolution for 2009, and it will definitely involve a set ...
Oops, double post.
...
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- The Sun Also Rises
- Of Mice and Men
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Awakening
- The Great Gatsby
- Antigone
- Oedipus Rex Actually I may have read this on my own, but we definitely discussed it when we read Antigone
- Things Fall Apart
My ...
Among the titles I read for my honors and AP English classes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
Great Gatsby
Mayor of Casterbridge
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Stranger (English language translation)
A Raisin in the Sun
and others...
... non-depressing 1001 book, you may want to look at this one)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Big Sleep
The Secret Agent
The Great Gatsby
Where Angels Fear to Tread
The Maltese Falcon
The Sun Also Rises
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Kim
Death in Venice
The Razor's Edge
Animal ...
... The Collector, The Magus, and French Lieutenant's Woman. Second choice is Fitzgerald, because, although I think The Great Gatsby is brilliant to the point that I read it twice in the past year or so, it's the only Fitzgerald I've read (so far).
I tend to agree with you--many kids already know they like Harry Potter, but they probably won't know they like The Great Gatsby or other classics if they're not made to read them. Plus, reading at least some of the classics is part of being educated!! There was a boy at my high school whose ...
...
So I'm just trying to picture high school without The Scarlet Letter, Hamlet, The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, and The Great Gatsby . It seems insane! Yes, I didn't always enjoy the books we read for school - Heart of Darkness, ugh! - but I think the introduction of a variety of ...
... Markus Zusak
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Redwall series, mostly Redwall and Taggerung
... Woman - Joyce Meyer
There's A Wolf in My Time Machine - Larry Niven
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
I am now on 13 out of 50
... posted, which says its historical only if the author approaches it from a research perspective. What would books like The Great Gatsby or Pride and Prejudice or To Kill A Mockingbird be if not historical to us? It doesn't sound right to say they are contemporary... I'm curious because I ...
... I found that The Da Vinci Code was middle of the road, I didn't love it but I didn't hate it. I also feel that way about The great gatsby but I think that's only because I had to read it twice and I found more appreciation for it in college than I had in high school (still don't like it that ...
The Great Gatsby . I loathe that book. Read it in high school and hated it, then a couple of years back, I decided to read it again to see if my dislike was due to being an immature teenager. Nope. It just sucks.
... so I got to experience it twice. Yippee! I turned to Cliff's Notes the second time around.
I also never connected with The Great Gatsby . I remember my teacher telling me I didn't get it. Yeah, I didn't.
... Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I just want to echo the agreement on The Great Gatsby , I've never read it so the cover does nothing to sell it to me.
My list of orders goes as follows:
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Varieties of Religious Experience
....which are my birthday gifts, ...
... encompasses all of 2008. (My other list is from this June to next June). My list now includes:
Anansi Boys
Walden
The Great Gatsby
A Raisin in the Sun
Death of a Salesman
The Caine Mutiny
Pagan Christmas
The Light Fantastic
The Zombie Survival Guide
Apocalypse Wow!
...
I have read The Great Gatsby and my review is here. It's not a very well written review because my husband is watching The Sopranos really really loudly and I wasn't able to concentrate very well. :P
Dulcibelle, I'd like ...
... is a book that everyone in this group has read? Or which one comes closest. Nineteen Eighty-four? Catcher in the Rye? The Great Gatsby ? Jane Eyre?
... a reading list for a history class in 11th grade and told to read one book. The only book on the list I hadn't read was The Great Gatsby . I hated it with every fiber of my being. I hated the characters, I hated the story, I hated the writing. I also don't see how this added to my ...
... My review is here .
lilyfyrestorm, will you read The Great Gatsby ? I'm trying to convince myself that it is time to re-read it and I'd like your opinion.
Whoever chooses for me, my tag is
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
... by John Steinbeck has been a worthwhile. The Pastures of Heaven if you are looking for a good, short introduction.
The Great Gatsby , Tender is the Night and The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Big Sleep and anything else by Raymond Chandler.
The Cain ...
... ickens
Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Call of the ...
In terms of stuff we had to read in school, Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby both fell waaaay short of "great" in my mind. I was also unimpressed with Catcher in the Rye. Look at me, I'm Holden Caulfield and I swear a lot blah blah blah.... is that too harsh? I haven't read it ...
This morning on the tram to work, I started reading The Great Gatsby . At first I started with the introduction (it's a Wordsworth Classic pocket edition) but after a few pages I saw that it was spoiling the plotline so I delved in. Loved the first 10 pages! Now I have something to look forward to ...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
... be familiar with the books within the book to enjoy/understand it? And what books do they cover? Obviously, Lolita and The Great Gatsby , judging by the chapter titles. Which Henry James and Jane Austen titles are discussed? I'm sort of on a classics streak, so I'll probably work through ...
... anything else by him... It could be because it reminded me of the setting of The Crucible, which I loved.
I hated The Great Gatsby but typically love F. Scott Fitzgerald.
As for the Irish authors, they seem to be polar opposites, you either love or hate them, very little in ...
... a collection of shorter Irene Nemirovsky works. Right now, I'm working on David Golder which reminds me a bit of The Great Gatsby mostly for its portrayal of the lifestyles of the noveaux riche in the Roaring '20s.
I've also been slowly reading The Other Nineteenth Century which ...
... tags seem to be getting copied to multiple books in the last few days... My tags for Spy: The Funny Years have jumped to The Great Gatsby , and Duma Key's tags are appearing on Ulysses. I liked Duma King and all, but its no Ulysses. There are others that this has been happening to as well.
...
...
I can remember the plot and main character(s) of every book I've read since fifth grade english class, yet I have now read the great gatsby twice, and still can't remember the story.
Gah! #124, you have run me through with a fondue fork! It makes me terribly sad that you didn't give The Great Gatsby a fighting chance. It's not even like you'd be miserable for that long; it's under 200 pages. I find it a really stunning novel and really enjoyed the chance to read it. And about ...
... have been mentioned here. The ones that I haven't read I've been intrigued to read for a while.
My WORST two were:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald even the movie version of this book stank. I mean really, who gives a rat's behind? (Honestly, I didn't force myself to read ...
33. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald : (reread) I had forgotten the joy of rereading books. I read this book some time ago, and it's currently the assignment for my H. English III class. I loved this book even more the second time through - it seemed wittier and more moving. I recommend ...
#216/222 - The Great Gatsby ?
Dang I'm too slow in catchin up on threads....
To keep the game going -
Cover shows a profile view of a lawn gnome sitting behind the wheel of a car; author's name is in yellow at the top, title is in white letters.
#216 is The Great Gatsby .
... account. A bit lightweight, lots of telling, not much other than fact-fact-fact.'
Not sure what to read now. I started The Great Gatsby on Saturday when I had nothing to do at my in-laws' house - maybe I'll finish that.
... book lovers. I was very modest this year:
- The Last Man / Mary Shelley
- Gulliver's Travels / Jonathan Swift
- The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Moby Dick / Herman Melville
all Wordsworth Classics paperbacks.
- To Father / Dana Sobel
- The Brooklyn Follies / Paus A ...
... were more books chosen for me that I hated than what I liked. I don't think I'll ever grow to like Gulliver's Travels or Great Gatsby . EVER!
#23
I was referring to the content with heaviness. I would've been more than happy with the romance at that age. LOL. If I'd been reading Harry P ...
18. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The decay of American morals… greed, love, jealousy, and greed told in beautiful words. Fitzgerald captures the wealth of the Long Island area in the 20’s with the help of Nick, the narrator. This is one of the few times that I’ve read a book ...
A couple of so-called classics that I should probably love and do not: The Great Gatsby and Wuthering Heights.
Another, more recent book that was highly thought of here on LT but I cannot stand is Beautiful Children by Charles Bock. I did not even bother finishing it.
I can't believe I haven't read Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby , The Grapes of Wrath or Wuthering Heights.
I was an English major! And now I'm a librarian!
The Great Gatsby is my favorite "G" book. I know that a lot of people can't stand it because of the characters, but it's a book that has stuck with me, eight years after I read it.
... the memoir is structured around the books their book club read. I also enjoy the way classics of the English canon like The Great Gatsby and Lolita are interpreted differently in a non-Western context. It's my favorite memoir, hands down.
... the near future.
Books that I've truly abandoned over the years are Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Classics, I know. They just bored me to tears. As does most Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Come to think of it, I ...
The Great Gatsby listening to Louis Armstrong's Hot 5's and Hot 7's
Dodsworth listening to Paul Whiteman's Orchastra play Gershwin.
... I read the first two of the series years ago and I'm able to remember quite a bit of Harry Engstrom's life.
As for The Great Gatsby I hated it in high school and have yet to go back to it. I found the teacher frustrating because we spent so much time on parts of the book that I felt ...
oh yeah, you won't be sorry. If you're a fan of The Great Gatsby you'll really enjoy it.
I also loved The Great Gatsby , but I had a fantastic English teacher, so that probably explains it. I also really enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, which is another that doesn't go over well in high school. The only book I did not like was Great Expectations, though I can appreciate it more now. ...
Thanks, Perlle.
Great list, very little controversy on it, unlike the 1001 list. And I see the Great Gatsby is on it :-). I was just waxing poetic about it earlier today on a related thread.
... 58, 59 Great Gatsby
I want to be very careful to phrase this right and not come across offensively.
I have taught Great Gatsby to high school students numerous times and I would say with great success. The more I read it and the more I teach it, the more I find to admire in the book, a ...
#55 & 56: I don't understand why a teacher would assign the Great Gatsby to a high school class. I think it is a rare teenager who would find that book interesting. I read it in my 20s and even though I loved the era, I didn't like the characters and found the story boring. I think I might like ...
#55 -- I recently read The Great GAtsby for the first time as well -- overrated, IMHO.
Just read Villette and now reading Wide Sargasso Sea
I am accomplishing what I should have abashedly completed in High School; reading The Great Gatsby .
... North Allen Ginsberg's 'Who Runs America?' alongside Walt Whitman's 'Prairie Sunset' and the closing passage of 'The Great Gatsby ', F.Scott Fitzgerald's story of the disintegration of the American Dream.
... to say Pride and Prejudice. In addition to it being my favorite, it's the one I turn to for comfort or a good re-read. The Great Gatsby , Jane Eyre, and To Kill a Mockingbird are the others that tend to really draw me in every time I read them.
I might be noted that 2 of my favorite books were both published in 1925: F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby , and Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, which was originally published in a 2 volume set, and a substantial bestseller too, but didn't quite make the list.
... it so much was because I compared it to the other wonderful works that we read that I really adored:
The Crucible
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill A Mockingbird
Death of a Salesman
Maybe I should give ol' Hawthorne another shot now that I am a bit older and ...
... Carey (Gr. 8?)
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL ...which, amazingly, has no touchstone (Gr. 8)
Fahrenheit 451 (Gr. 9?)
The Great Gatsby (Gr. 11?)
Lord of the Flies (Gr. 10)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (college)
A Raisin in the Sun (Gr. 10?)
A Separate Peace (Gr. 10)
Their Eye ...
... Huckleberry Finn
19. Ulysses
20. The Trial
21. The Sound and the Fury
22. Pale Fire
23. The Plague
24. The Great Gatsby
25. Things Fall Apart
... was definitely appreciated now.
Starting St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (8). Have been meaning to re-read The Great Gatsby for a while now, but will enjoy something different.
... Book Lust - Nancy Pearl
2. More Book Lust - Nancy Pearl
3. 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
Classics:
1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
YA/ Children's
1. Princess Mia - Meg Cabot
New (to me) Authors
1. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
2. The Inn at ...
The Great Gatsby . Read it in high school, and really didn't like it. Just seemed pointless.
Oh, and The Rising by Brian Keene. The worst zombie fiction ever written, hands down. I burned it when I was finished.
... s
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*
Rebecca*
The Count of Monte Cristo
On my shelf:
The Great Gatsby
1984
Brave New World
Emma
Pride and Predjudice
Wuthering Heights
The Great Gatsby
...because Hell aptly describes the ninth grade lit class I was in when I had to read it.
... India or China, for example. Would you criticise an inhabitant of Bombay for only choosing Bollywood films?
If I choose The Great Gatsby over Hunger or The Magic Mountain it may just be because I think it is 'better' book, not because it was originally published in English and the others ...
Fair enough, I'll try. The first 5 are in order, after that it's free-for-all.
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Secret History
1984
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
And Then There Were None
To Kill A Mockingbird
His Dark Materials
Good Omens
From Russia With Lov ...
The Double Bind and The Great Gatsby .
I finished The Great Gatsby . My thoughts on this "Consummate American Classic"? Meh. My problem with the book is a problem I have often when I read -little or no connection with the characters. In particular, no insight into their experiences or personalities that would indicate a reason ...
... I will probably never buy Moby Dick. ;)
My first three acquisitions have been The Short Stories of Charles Dickens, The Great Gatsby and The Jungle Books. I'm trying to get ahold of some of the sci-fi titles now - always been a huge buff of classic sci-fi like Bradbury and Asimov - but ...
... with a Neurotic Cat by Stephen Baker
14. John Dies at the End by David Wong
15. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
16. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
... Library is doing a special Big Read promotion for April, involving all manner of events related to this year's book pick...The Great Gatsby . I'd never read it, and thought, what better time than now? It had been sitting on my TBR shelf for eons...and now it has spent hours with me in the bath! ...
One of my cats is named Daisy after The Great Gatsby . The other is Felix which is just a typical cat name.
... vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .
-The Great Gatsby
27. The Great Gatsby --F. Scott Fitzgerald
... erself)
Lip
by Catherine Smith
1 March 2008
(from my favorite oxfam books on portobello road in london)
The great gatsby (1968 penguin edition)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda
compiled by Jackson Bryer & Cathy Barks
Yeah, and I thought I ...
... like when I read disgrace and was unsettled for days.
The more I read of the long goodbye the more it reminds me of the great gatsby with some P.I. vitriol thrown in. Anyone else think so?
I don't know what to read next. I saw the rossetti letter mentioned and it looks good. I have ...
Is it The Great Gatsby ?
... this thing? It's on a short list of books that have instantly rearranged my worldview. Other books on that list include The Great Gatsby , Catcher in the Rye, Wise Blood, and Breakfast of Champions, so it's in good company.
I started the nice-and-easy Travels With Charley as an ...
... Elaine Marie Alphin
2. Freaks: Alive On The Inside! by Annette Curtis Klause
3. Midnighters #1 by Scott Westerfeld
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Tab:
5. The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
6. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Gathering Blue ...
26> megacoupe, That is such a wonderful notion about The Great Gatsby . I have certainly reread books I disliked in school to find I very much like them now, but to nurse a dislike is marvelous.
Robert
... It was the first book that opened my eyes to the power of literature and I'm afraid of being bored by it now.
I hated The Great Gatsby when I read it in high school and I'm afraid that if I re-read it now, I'll enjoy it! I suppose I take some pleasure in despising a book that so many ...
... book by the author about the sister of the main character in that book. :(
For some reason whenever I've tried to read The Great Gatsby , I end up putting it down. I don't think I'm fond of it.
16) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
I've read this for about the 4th or 5th time. It never gets old.
...
Also, the Las Vegas Library has a fantastic annual book club program called Reading Las Vegas and this year's pick is The Great Gatsby . Also a Classic and Author I've Been Meaning to Read.
So many possibilities!
... Compass by Phillip Pullman
2. The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman
3. The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Girl with the pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier
6. The other Boleyn girl by Phillipa Gregory
7. The Scarlett Letter ...
... euros deal...
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The world according to garp by John Irving
The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing which I don't think is actually on the list but got mixed up in the frenzy...still looks ...
... his family's vacation home and what is has meant to them over the years. It is a pleasure to read on every level.
7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Re-read for book discussion group. Don't know what I can say about this book that hasn't already been said. How sad it is.
I am reading The Blind Assassin, The Great Gatsby and Three Lives right now.
Reading a bunch for school:
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Easily one of my favorite books. I am re-reading this for the 5th or 6th time.
Existentialism: Basic Writings by Charles Guignon.
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. I don't get it. At all.
...
... and heartbreaking).
I'm currently reading I'd tell you I love you but then I'd have to kill you by Ally Carter, The Great Gatsby and Castle Waiting by Linda Medley. I'm hoping to finish them up this weekend!
As for what I'm looking forward to, I have Charles de Lint's Memory ...
Never read it, but I have read the great gatsby at uni and really enjoyed dissecting it as an illustration of the illusion of the American dream (my lecturer was obsessed with it being a fallacy.)
keigu,
You know, I enjoy The Great Gatsby and firmly believe that it has a rightful place in the American cannon, but I do not enjoy teaching it because the language is often too much for the students, and they struggle with the comprehension of it, not to mention that it doesn't have a ...
... as it is reproduced in myriad forms-- then it has staying power. Here is an essay prompt I gave my students today on The Great Gatsby .
“Fitzgerald ebulliently proclaimed in 1920 that ‘An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the ...
... actually read The Scarlett Letter it was unbearable, I just faked it. I think I read half of Watership Down. I faked The Great Gatsby too. One novel I actually liked in highschool was To Kill a Mockingbird which is still a favorite of mine. I also liked the play The Crucible very ...
... which I add: meaning people fussing, snapping, and yelling at each other.
-The book's date of publication falls between The Great Gatsby and Sylvia Plath, but I'm not going to say where it falls on the spectrum.
New hint: The author died before reaching 40. He proclaimed his genius at ...
The book's date falls between The Great Gatsby and Sylvia Plath. Also regarding 138, it's not something that would be considered Juv.
Clue: quotation in 134 is from a death passage (that is, a passage with someone dying, if I'm not making myself clear, which is entirely possible, because it's ...
They are both really familiar to me but I can't quite place it. For some reason I keep thinking either The Great Gatsby or Lemony Snicket's An unfortunate series of events and both seem not quite right (and nothing like each other. It's late here though, my brain is tired.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book 127 for me off the list is The Great Gatsby . I'm about 2/3 of the way through.
... a lot. It's like only ever listening to Bach, because nothing else could possibly measure up.
I've read some books eg The Great Gatsby multiple times; reading more books allows me time to re-read the best whilst not missing out on new stuff.
... life by Mary Anne Radmacher, which I will probably end up buying, it looks yummy.
Also found a nice edition of The Great Gatsby . I've read it several times and thought it was time I owned one.
Started a re-read of The Great Gatsby . First time since college.
My top fiction:
Ysabel
The Garden Angel
Before You Know Kindness
The Great Gatsby
We Need to Talk About Kevin
One Mississippi
Bridge of Sighs
Top nonfiction:
She Got Up Off the Couch
I'll Always Have Paris
Better
Coal to Cream
My list is a little long, but ...
... Orwell
5. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (8/10)
7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
... Atonement
3. Tender is the Night
4. The Talented Mr. Ripley
5. Frankenstein
6. Animal Farm
7. Catch 22
8. The Great Gatsby
... by Jane Austen
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8 Fiction
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Girls of Riyadh by Raja ...
I've read three:
The Great Gatsby
The Stand
The World According to Garp
TBR pile (15 books deep):
Catch 22
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
... Dumas
26. American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
27. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
30. The Collector by John Fowles
31. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
3 ...
87. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am not sure how I missed this book before now. This was incredibly well-written, and the topics that it covers, class divides and class mobility, are some in which I am particularly interested. I liked the detached narrator who frames the ...
I gave in today and bought books, although not as many as wisewoman and uath!
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Giver by Lois Lowry--to read aloud with my daughterAtonement by Ian McEwan
A Certain Justice by P.D. James
Original Sin by P.D. James
Shoul ...
...
There are books that I read a long time ago that I didn't like, but maybe didn't understand: the Old Man and the Sea and The Great Gatsby (I was soooo disappointed in that book).
And there are books I didn't like, but I know they have huge followings, so a lot of other people want them on ...
... never been able to get is Wuthering Heights. I did not enjoy it at all. Another one that I cannot seem to get into is The Great Gatsby . I am not sure why I have problems with both of these books, I just don't like them. I know they are both highly praised, it's just a matter of personal ...
My "best of" list has to break into three categories:
Fiction:
The Great Gatsby
Women of the Silk
Slaughter House-Five
Saturday (touchstone not working)
O Pioneers
Honorable Mention: Kafka on the Shore
Non-Fiction
The Lemon Tree
A Man Without A Country
Dead ...
I just recently finished Tender is the Night (modern classic) after being so turned off by The Great Gatsby in high school and was amazed at the prose style. My favorite classics though would have to be Middlemarch (I've read it three times!), A Room with A View and Vanity Fair. Pretty ...
... They Carried
Rock Star
Brave New World Revisited
Wuthering Heights
A Widow for One Year
Little Women
and The Great Gatsby
Funny how all these books are on the 1001 list except 1!!! LOL
... it is more a memory of my liking or disliking the book, and not a review, but honestly, how many people have reviewed The Great Gatsby ? What more could there be to say? It seems to me rather nit-picky to go flag other's reviews because they are "not reviews", as is shown in this thread, an ...
22. Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
This was her first novel, classic Pym
23. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A 1001 book - I first read this 30 years ago in high school and although I didn't feel quite so passionate about it this time it is still an excellent story.
And, ...
11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
So far I have read:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Animal Farm by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying ...
... Menagerie
To Kill a Mockingbird, (middleschool)
Billy Budd, Sailor
A Farewell to Arms
The Old Man and the Sea
The Great Gatsby
Winesburg Ohio
Cannery Row
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Macbeth
Henry V
Twelfth Night
Othello
The Arma ...
... 20th century authors at first so you don't have the added hassle of footnotes and culture shock. Suggestions: Fitzgerald: Gatsby , Mailer: Naked and Dead, Jones: Here to Eternity, Mitchell: Gone with the Wind. Avoid 19th century academic specialties like Tobias Smollett and the like, or ...
... Edwards with The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne. We explored themes of guilt and secrets.
Another suggested pairing is The Great Gatsby and DeMille's Gold Coast.
Death in Venice -- Britten
End of the Affair -- Heggie
The Great Gatsby -- Harbison
War and Peace -- Prokofiev
Carmen -- Bizet
... for a favourite book, then I resort to giving the title of the book I have read the most, which is F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby which I have read 20+ times at least, and now tend to read most years, for its chrystaline use of language and evocative atmosphere. It captures a period ...
(1) Drama
The Great Gatsby
(2) Mystery/Crime
The Outsider - Albert Camus. Not sure this entirely counts but I didn't really want to say the only other one I think counts, which is The Black Dahlia
(3) Comedy
Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
(4) Horror ...
Someone combined Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon with The Great Gatsby . There are obviously numerous editions of each of these. Anyone know if there's a quick way to disassociate numerous editions at once? Or do we have to go edition by edition?
... A Moveable Feast too often because I like it so, so much, and I don't want it to lose any of its luster.
I didn't like The Great Gatsby or The Secret Garden the first time I read them. But I got better! Thank goodness I game them another chance. It's true, though, that some things fall ...
36. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yesterday I bought The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby , and The Bluest Eye for my grandson. School assignments for him.
For myself I bought St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The World at Night. I also bought The Heart of the World by Ian Baker. (The touchstone kept ...
... their novels and stories. Admittedly, in Fitzgerald's case, it was after he had spent a small fortune but then again, both The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night sold very poorly when first published.
ps...since this is a library site, shouldn't everyone know better - it is a literary ...
... untamed Nebraska land. Willa Cather's tale comes to us through the eyes of Ántonia's childhood friend, Jim Burden.
The Great Gatsby
Told through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway,
F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical masterpiece recounts Jay Gatsby's desperate quest to win back his first ...
... by Chinua Achebe
73. Junky by William S. Burroughs
74. Slow Learner: Early Stories by Thomas Pynchon
75. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
76. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
77. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) by Ken K ...
Somehow I missed this thread and have been posting to the old one.
I recently completed Things Fall Apart, Junky, The Great Gatsby and Everything Is Illuminated, bringing me to 50/1001 = 5% - 19 more years to go.
I'm now starting One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I'v ...
...
At the same time, I've started picking up some of those "I should have read these" books for my "next" pile: Catch 22, The Great Gatsby , Horse Whisperer, Farenheit 451 and others; and adding to my collection of Kurt Vonnegut (RIP).
Oh - and let's not forget the last Harry Potter. ...
I completed The Great Gatsby , which, as expected, I enjoyed much more now than when I read it in high school 20 years ago, especially the precision of the language and sound of the dialogue. Spot on, old sport. That brings me to 49/1001.
I've now started Everything Is Illuminated by Jonat ...
... and Time from the first lines of “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
both books by Robert Penn Warren
3.Vanity Fair by Thackeray not quite an entire quote but an allusion to the Vanity Fair of The Pilgrim's Progress
4. The Wastelands by Stephen King -T.S. Eliot ...
... some books that are simply atrocious (e.g., The Edible Woman may qualify as one of the most facile and trite books since The Great Gatsby , and it's not as well written), but sometimes a novelist should take risks - much of Melville fails.
But on the same intellectual plane as Pamuk ...
... including another 29 I read back in my school days but which I intend to re-read to count officially.
I'm now starting The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is one of those 29 I am re-reading.
... the girl of my dreams with my wealth (though I'm not as wealthy as my neighbors on East Egg) in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby . This is another re-read for me, first time in 20 years.
... they may be. Try The Sun Also Rises or A Farewell To Arms.
If you've read Fitzgerald, I'm sure you've read The Great Gatsby . After that I'd recommend Tender Is The Night. A terrific book (if you can get past the main character name of Dick Diver!). It must have been heart-wrenc ...
We read The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men in the Academy - fortunately, we had an excellent teacher who made them very exciting for us. I've never read any Hemmingway as yet, but I do plan on doing so, as well as reading more Steinbeck and Fitzgerald.
... and Future King by T.H. White
3. The Ghost of Blackwood Hall by Carolyn Keene
4. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
7. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
8. Brave New World by Aldous ...
... Medea
L’Ecume des jours
Of Human Bondage
The Secret History
Leaves of Grass
The Debt to Pleasure
The Great Gatsby
The Interpreter of Maladies
Pride and Prejudice
(This might be a rerun; sorry.)
The Great Gatsby , by F. Scott Fitzgerald
... Pyramid .
When I chose the "odd" fork, I got a different set of questions, leading to The Great Gatsby ... what point do you decide that a text is understood? In another forum I post on, someone had mentioned that upon rereading The Great Gatsby in their thirties, the book had changed entirely. When reading the book in High School, this person had hated the book. Fifteen years later they loved it. ...
Touchstones: The Great Gatsby .
From the introduction by Guy Reynolds: "Stories about confidence men, about trickery, imposture and conning, were important in earlier American writing; Herman Melville's The Confidence Man (1857) and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) are the ...
Touchstones: The Great Gatsby .
"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." (39)
"He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: 'I never loved you.' After she had ...
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Warner
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
The Greedy Bastard Diary by Eric Idle
... on literary, fiction -- and these are the five that came at the top of the list.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel
The name of the rose ...
I've not read Catch 22, but have read The Great Gatsby (probably because I liked the movie with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow); the book was better! I also remember reading Fahrenheit 451, and being spooked by it (a good thing).
This last week, I finally read Girl With a Pearl Earring. Wh ...
I just picked up Catch 22 and The Great Gatsby - a couple I've never read. I've been on the lookout for Farenheit 451, but I think I'm going to go ahead and order it.
... Pierced by the word : thirty - one meditations for your soul gives you a list with The Great Gatsby , Life of Pi, One hundred years of solitude and Catch-22 in the first five. Shakespeare, Anthony Burgess, Margaret Atwood, Nabokov...
Desiring God : ...
After HP, I have 1984, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby , and Jane Eyre. I think I have most of the really common books on LT. I also have LotR and the Hobbit (obviously) but in a box set so they're not up there on my list.
... 100 or less. As for the most shared, discounting the Harry Potter books and the Da Vinci Code, then it's the Hobbit, the Great Gatsby and the LOTR books... then we get some more interesting ones the Curious Incident of the dog in the nighttime which I enjoyed a lot, and the brilliant Li ...
I LOVE english class but I never got The Great Gatsby . It was too subtle and incomprehensibly vague. Nothing had any meaning, it was all just some rich people sitting around and worrying about their pathetic social lives.
I always give the book I have read the most in answer to this question, and that book is The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, I have now read it 20+ times and I always go back to it for the chrystaline prose, and for the atmosphere.
The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
... noam chomsky
the metaphysics of modality by graeme forbes
the practice of principle by jules coleman
the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
of mice and men by john steinbeck
lord of light by roger zelazny
ok i got a little carried away there... sorry.. ...
... there's no shortage books analysing them in case you need help. :) The Turn of the Screw, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Great Gatsby , 1984 and The Yellow Wallpaper are all quite short and worth trying. Interview with the Vampire and Dracula are also both short and worth trying if ...
... The Five People You Meet In Heaven: Mitch Albom
14. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things: Jon McGregor
15. The Great Gatsby : F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. Water For Elephants : a Novel: Sara Gruen
17. Talk Before Sleep: Elizabeth Berg
18. Nineteen Minutes: Jodi P ...
... be upset if such a book was taught.
Perhaps that's part of the reason a lot of high schools stick with the old standbys (The Great Gatsby , Steinbeck, Scarlet Letter, etc.). When you have to worry about purchasing enough copies of a novel for however many students are in you high school ...
... I totally sympathise with roxpie's mother. I started it, but didn't get very far before deciding I first needed to read The Great Gatsby , some Henry James and some more Nabakov. It made me feel really ignorant!
I love To The Lighthouse and The Great Gatsby . I remember reading Watership Down as a teenager and being enthralled. I plan to read that one again as an adult at some point.
The only book I distinctly remember jumping ship on was The Great Gatsby , mostly because it was taking me forever, and I figured that if such a short book was taking me this long, something had to be seriously. I don't mean the language was difficult or anything like that, but just that well, I ...
I just read Great Extectation by Charles Dickens.
... excuse for being boring. (Which it is, up until the last quarter, where he manages to get the action going.)
As for the Great Gatsby , I didn't particularly care for it, but I found it short and painless.
26. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Put me down as another vote for The Great Gatsby -- thouroughly unimpressive even to this American reader.
I have recently been reading alot of classics and most of them are so suprisingly good I can see what all the fuss is about -- but not Gatsby, and another disappointment -- My Antonia ...
... like that. For English, I use different colored highlighters for distinguish characters. For example, I'm currently reading The Great Gatsby . Gatsby, Blue; Daisy, Yellow; Jordan, Pink; and Tom, Green. I use my pencil for other things like alliteration, themes, things like that. I find it EXTREMEL ...
... books, no matter how challenging they are. I know without university, I would never enjoy books like Invisible Man, or The Great Gatsby , or any of the many others.
... it afterwards and highlight my favorite passages, and after that I'll probably start to read Emma. We're still working on The Great Gatsby in AP American Literature, and it's very good so far. Gatsby and his decieving personality is very intrigueing, and Nick's narration is hilarious and ...
I absolutely agree on both The Great Gatsby and Sophie's World, and I'm particularly glad to hear I'm not alone on the former! If it really is one of the greatest novels ever written, then there's something I'm genuinely not getting. Maybe it's because I'm not American, have never been to Americ ...
... Salinger .
Now I am a reading a different book . As of 0000H GMT of May 19, I have so far completed 54% of the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald .
... good books for that class, The Secret Life of Bees, Ceremony, The Awakening, Cat's Cradle, and currently reading The Great Gatsby . I'm so scared for As I Lay Dying!
... Wears Prada~Lauren Weisberger
12) Elantris~Brandon Sanderson
13) Pawn of Prophecy~David Eddings
14) The Great Gatsby ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
15) Queen of Sorcery~ David Eddings
... or there. I tried, but the focus on who danced with whom just couldn't hold my interest.
I also basically slept through The Great Gatsby .
But I like Dickens. Does that even things out?
#7 Thalia:
I, too, hate The Da Vinci Code.
#17 Phlox72:
I can't stand The Great Gatsby , either.
#23 pandora22, #27 Bookmarque, #33 physik:
Gasp!
# 34 blackcat:
Okay, I can't gasp at you 'cause I already knew how you felt about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. :)
#40 ...
... of the work (those who love it) more than the work itself.
Let me add that I also adore The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby , which a lot of people on LT really seem to love to hate.
... of blah to me, though many people here said they enjoyed it. I didn't like the characters. They seemed very forced.
The Great Gatsby I simply cannot abide for any reason.Sad but true.
Both The Historian and The Shadow of The Wind felt excessively long-winded, melodramatic and ...
... unrepresentative, selection of favourites:
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene -- beautifully, satisfyingly sad.
The Great Gatsby , The Old Man and the Sea
Recently reread The Wind in the Willows -- particularly enjoyed Chapter 7 ("The Piper at the Gates of Dawn") describing the ...
... Verdi's La Traviata, Melville's Billy Budd inspired Britten's work of the same name, and in recent years we have seen The Great Gatsby , Dead Man Walking, A Streetcar Named Desire, Little Women and many more books appear in operatic form.
... referred to in Nafisi's book. Like you, I have the urge to read Lolita now and I am more than a little curious about The Great Gatsby .
... but through the narrator's eyes you also get a real feel of how the rich have their problems too. It is quite similar to The Great Gatsby that way. I love the interaction with the reader, and although this is a hard style to use effectively, Ford pulls it off in my opinion. A duel-layered ...
... get it at first, but as we're dicussing it in AP American Literature, I'm appreciating it more and more. We're starting The Great Gatsby next week, very excited!
As for my own pleasure reading, Fat Kid Rules The World by K. L. Going is a great read so far. Very different to most I've ...
... by the complilers of the list.
MODERN LIBRARY ALTERNATIVE LIST
THE ONES I KEPT
1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
...
... of Paradise after about 100 pages."
I read that a month or so ago and didn't enjoy it. You're not missing anything. I love The Great Gatsby so I didn't give up on This side of Paradise but it never got better.
I started Middlesex which is surprisingly funny and really good so far.
... Constructivism, Deconstruction, and a little bit of "New Criticism." The fun part was we read (most of us re-read) The Great Gatsby at the beginning of the semester. We then applied each theory to that work. I certainly am a literary nerd to think that is fun, but it really helped me ...
... in the Rye.
I also just picked up This Side of Paradise from the library. The only Fitzgerald book I've read is The Great Gatsby , and I love the 1920's, so I'm making it a point to read a few more of his books.
... and/or Canonized (oh how I hate to bring up that term!) novels hover around 200-250 pages depending on the edition.
The Great Gatspy F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
Just ‘cos its short doesn’t mean it’ ...
I actually didn't like The Great Gatsby at all, I thought it was incredibly boring and dull, but I suggested it anyway (in my message 2) simply because it was the first book that came to my mind when I thought of American literature. I believe it should be a book that is also known outside the US ...
The Great Gatsby ?
... the second most common book in the libraries of people in this group is The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy (it seem The Great Gatsby has it beat).
How many who have it have actually read it? I haven't, so it would be nice to know I'm not alone. And if you have, what did you think of ...
... in on library thing this year. I did this last year on LJ and made it to 57 books. This year I'm going for 75.
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Didn’t really dig it too much. People say it is a great work, I found it just average.
2. J.K. Rowling: A Biography by Connie ...
I think I covered my major bases last time, with The Great Gatsby and Diary of Anne Frank.
My boyfriend keeps ranting about how much he hated Siddhartha, and part of that was because of how much his teacher LOVED it (expectations). I don't feel strongly about it one way or the other.
... been killing me lately. =P So far, though, here's what I've got:
1. The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
2. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen (Ok, it was for AP lit...but there's nothing wrong with that!)
4. As I Lay Dying - Wi ...
an obvious choice, but essential: The Great Gatsby
... and teach.
I already have a "Read 2007" tag, so I'll leave it at that. As of today, here is what I've finished:
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (180 pages)
2. Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (160 pages)
3. Four to Score by Janet Evanovich (304 pages)
4. Lincoln: A Photobiogr ...
The Dark is Rising, The Great Gatsby , and the first Wheel of Time book (only a little at a time). On audio, A Separate Peace.
I just finished 2 YA novels, The Slave Dancer, and Lincoln: A Photobiography, both excellent books. Waiting in the wings is a poor excuse of a book that I ...
tunarubber:
I must admit to having read The Great Gatsby and My Antonia when I was very young, and not liking them much, but I attribute that to tender age. Who could ever rip Catcher in the Rye to shreds, though? That's just crazy talk. I guess we know better. *grin*
... is one of my favorite books. Of course many of my favorites are ripped to shreds on here: Catcher in the Rye, Great Gatsby , My Antonia.
Rule 42 - you are not that far away with linking The Great Gatsby with a Greek text. The original title was going to be Trimalchio, a reference to a character from The Satyricon by Petronius.
Of course, the fact that FSF has included references to classical works in the novel would go ...
Rule 42 - you are not that far away with linking The Great Gatsby with a Greek text. The original title was going to be Trimalchio, a reference to a character from The Satyricon by Petronius.
Of course, the fact that FSF has included references to classical works in the novel would go ...
Rule 42 - you are not that far away with linking The Great Gatsby with a Greek text. The original title was going to be Trimalchio, a reference to a character from The Satyricon by Petronius.
Of course, the fact that FSF has included references to classical works in the novel would go ...
... teach me to veer away from Greek drama ... "
If you like Greek drama, Hera , then you'll probably really love The Great Gatsby . Tell me if this plot doesn't remind you just a little bit of that Greek tragedy they call 'The Great Oedipus Rex' ...
The philandering wife Daisy ...
... possible hyperbole being that I am currently no longer motivated to go back and read any of his other short stories.
WRT The Great Gatsby , I personally felt it was only an OK read (about 2-3 stars) - and IMHO that is just NOT good enough for it to be rated as the "Great American Novel"; and ...
... especially. I need to finish up Stone soon, too. I know I should read LHA, but I always associate it F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby for some reason and I didn't like it. Weren't they friends or writing buddies or something?
It's time someone stands up for F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a great novel, it is beautifully written and densely layered. Each re-reading reveals something different. That's why it is constantly voted near the top of best books. Tender is the Night, although flawed, is also a ...
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Thank you, thank you, thank you jhowell and fyrefly98 ... I have to add my vote to both of yours that The Great Gatsby is one of the most overrated books of all time. In fact, I think F. Scott Fitzgerald is probably one of the most overrated authors period.
I didn't ...
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The Member of the Wedding
Romeo and Juliet
The Robe
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus the King
Antigone
Rebecca
The Great Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
Lost Horizon
Brave New World
The Things They Carried
O Pioneers
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lost Horizon
Amphigorey ...
... it into that list and not the Zeitgeist top 25 are naturally more challenging - and perhaps less broadly appealing - than The Great Gatsby . Like many people here, I own eight of the top ten, plus Swann's Way - an approximate nine. But this can't compete, sheerly for numbers, with, say, a Ha ...
I just found out my son has to read The Great Gatsby , and since I haven't read it since I was in 11th grade (oh so many years ago), I feel like I should be a good mom and read it along with him. I don't think I'm likely to get the books confused, however, so I think I can read the Cooper books ...
... too by Katherine Paterson floating around in my bag and seriously, it's getting really full because i'm also reading The Great Gatsby for class and it's really good but i'm too busy and i keep reading other books and doing other stuff instead because i get distracted really easily by ...
I have been working on the "Top 1oo Books" of the 20th century, as per Random House. I loved The Great Gatsby ,Native Son, and Heart of Darkness. James Joyce has begun to grow on me! Who knew?
jhowell - it's so nice to hear someone else who doesn't like The Great Gatsby ! I listened to the audiobook last year and the only reason I didn't turn it off was that a) it was so short, and b) I didn't have another book ready to go. Major disappointment.
I was actually dissapointed in The Great Gatsby which I read for the first time recently. It tops several of the best English language novels of all time lists so I thought it would be Great-er. I am afraid of Ulysses which is also on the tops of those infernal lists -- I am afraid I will ...
... I for one always warn the reader -- it's not a big deal to put SPOILER in your text. I would definitely do that for Gatsby , though probably not for R&J.
That said, I think one flag is plenty.
... that discussing the ending (or other critical info) is not a spoiler anymore? (Can I tell you what happens at the end of The Great Gatsby ? Or is that too recent? How about Romeo and Juliet?)
... but that feeling was intensified by how much everyone else seems to love them:
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my earlier post, I listed only four favorite books I read in 2006:
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Never Let Me Go
Jonathan Strange
In December, I read one that I can add to that list:
London by Edward Rutherfurd
Honorable mention to The Penelopiad by Atwood.
(e ...
... all of the Harry Potters a few times, usually right before a new one comes out...besides that, Gone with the Wind, The Great Gatsby , The Other Boleyn Girl and The Catcher in the Rye always bear re-reading to me...
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Gaiman's American Gods
Auster's Leviathan and Moon Palace
Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides
And then there are The Great Gatsby , The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird. These I've read so many times I've lost count.
Certai ...
... the following and re-evaluated them, moving them up in my list of favorite classics:
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Night by Elie Wiesel
and a new favorite:
Passing Through Paradise by John Schreiber
(it should be required ...
... between & amongst all the lighter fare. This year I read Pride and Prejudice, Of Mice and Men (a reread), and The Great Gatsby .
... 1855)
made-up (just goofing)
dickinsonian (she's got an astonishing vocab)
fitzgeraldean (i'ev worked a lot with The Great Gatsby )
carmelite (because I am one of them)
huck finnian (words from the weird old america)
sophomoric (more school stuff)
words of the years (i thought it ...
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Never Let Me Go
Jonathan Strange
Hmm, that's only four, and I can't think of another to list, so I think I'll hold off in case I read another favorite in December.
... about nuns. It was the idea that it was alright to tell naughty stories about nuns. It redefined literature.
that The great Gatsby is listed as one of the top five novels of the twentieth century means exactly that. Cheer up barring pestilence plagues and omnibuses I will be ...
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Re Message 138 - if it's too early to consider any Fitzgerald work a classic, what does it mean that The Great Gatsby is regularly listed in the top five best novels of the 20th century? (The fact it also flopped on initial release belies, again, the argument about a ...
... miss.
I'm NOT a trained literary scholar; I just muddle my way through.
Although I've already given an example in The Great Gatsby . It's not so much symbolism here that people might be missing, as the overall theme; if they don't perceive the overall theme, they don't understand why ...
... ruined the art.
I didn't ASSUME these people didn't recognize the art. They proved it to me.
For example, what if The Great Gatsby and Daisy had married and lived happily ever after? Such a nice cozy ending! Crumby book? Well, I guess it still would have made a good story. But the ...
... for me. I don't care to read about hunting and fishing.
Two that come to mind for me are The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby . I was required to read both of these books in high school, and at the time, really hated them. I re-read them both as an adult and now love both of them! I ...
... which 70 "of the world's towering classics" are "cut down to size". This book is not to be missed . Buy it! Here's The Great Gatsby ala Sagoff:
Gatsby's bashes, in the 'twenties
Wow'd the dolce far nientes
As they quaffed the cup of youth
(Ten parts gin and one vermouth);
G ...
... to make an effort, then classics will repay you.
Try a classic that is easier to read - something by Jane Austen of The Great Gatsby , for example.
Firefly7522 - is The English Patient a great film? It does look lovely but.... I would argue it's not a great book, while it has aspects ...
... a lot of people on this thread. Maybe not about the same books, but I know some people love the books others hate. I love Gatsby and The Scarlet Letter, but this only came after being taught them again in college. In fact, The Scarlet Letter may be one of my favorite "classics" now. This is ...
... Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter ...
... Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger His Dark ...
... unrealized expectations. This boils down to obtaining the books I've loved and read, but never owned, during the years. Gatsby and Rebecca and Gorky Park are working their way to me in the forms I want.
Also, I'm being less harsh in my view of purging my collection. Books I had ...
... by Voltaire
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Conversation at Midnight by Edna St Vincent Millay
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
(I can't put this list in definitive order yet)
Yes, there certainly are. I am entirely opposed to The Great Gatsby , I had to read it in high school and was the first school book that I didn't bother to finish. I also wasn't the biggest fan of Great Expectations.
I think it's important to read The Great Gatsby and other so-called classics so you can sprinkle your otherwise everyday speech with literary references and understand them when others do so also :).
I am not a fan of John Steinbeck or Hemingway and I hated The Great Gatsby when I first read it but it improved after re-reading it as an adult.
I still hate The Red Pony though.
I must say that 20th Century Classics tend to appeal to me the least.
I can forgive women in Regency ...
... sends me screaming. It's just too masculine.
To disagree with some posters, I loved Catcher in the Rye as well as Gatsby ; I've read both again and again. I also loved A Scarlet Letter though I hated it when I had to read it in high school. I've found that a lot of things I read in ...
... whose works I have always loved.
Having said that, my favorites literary novels include My Antonia, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby , Invisible Man (isn't that post-1950?), To Kill a Mockingbird (ditto), and Huckleberry Finn. Oh, yeah, and Stoker's Dracula, if that is considered ...
... going to H&** in a handbasket but who cares. Well that's what I liked about it--BUT IT is hard to read, frankly boring.
The Great Gatsby I didn't bother finishing.
And I want to add the majority of Oprahs Booklist, I have picked up books from there, and I swear none of them are good.
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To the Lighthouse makes me feel like a beginning reader all over again. I try to avoid this feeling whenever possible...
The Great Gatsby still perplexes me.
Please be nice to Fyodor D. He's my namesake!
... of the colour white. BS.
That might have been the first book I brought back to the library without finishing it.
The Great Gatsby - completely uninteresting story, poor characterisation because the narrator was only a minor character himself and had no insight into the actual main ...
This reminds me, it's time for me to re-read The Great Gatsby . I adore the book, especially the last line...
