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Title: Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli ISBN: 0-684-83042-6 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (780 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant and Entertaining!
Comment: I must admit I was quite intimidated by this novel. I had a number of preconceptions that made me shun away from reading it. I always heard it was about a rich guy trying to win over a girl... From this I imagined a snobby Victorian English guy playing polo saying "Marry me my dear?" and the girl says, "Oh no I can't!" Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. End of novel. In short, I imagined it was a story with thick characters with which I couldn't identify.
Well, fortunately I did get a chance to read it. And I was capitvated, (not to mention on a very long car trip) that I devoured it it one sitting. The Great Gatsby broke down everyone of my preconceptions and now has become one of my favorite novels.
The intense drama that unfolds between these very different and very inter-connected characters will cause the book to shake in your hands. I loved every minute of it. Especially how Gatsby's character is slowly reveiled, lie by lie, truth by truth, until the large tragic picture comes into focus. This is the American tragic love story.
Don't waste anymore time. Don't be intimidated. Read it, you'll be glad you did.
Rating: 5
Summary: The 'Has It All' American Classic Novel
Comment: How can anyone NOT give this book 5 stars? I appreciated the foreword, preface, afterword, explanatory notes & the notes about the author by Matthew J. Bruccoli which enlightened my eyes before I started on the path of reading The Great Gatsby.
It's funny that somehow my high school English teacher skipped this as required reading for me in the mid to late seventies. I bought the book for my niece, Ashley, a few years ago. I remembered a co-worker, Kim, who was an avid reader who once told me that The Great Gatsby was her all-time favorite book. I was curious. It's strang that it took my 17 year old niece to 'get me on the bandwagon' to finally read this classic book at age forty-one. It amazes me to realize that the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, died at age forty-four in Southern California on December 21, 1940, believing himself a failure.
It's quite clear that Fitzgerald's ideas may have been 'made up' but he sued real life people, his own experiences and other true events to make his story.
In retrosprect, the novel contains a story of money, greed, love, deceit, suspense, hate, alcoholism, stress, passion, time, ambition, death, life, status, 'leaving a mark in life', pleasure, vacation, free time, heroes, lies, trust, women vs. men, the 1920s, mystery, intrigue, romance, poor vs. rich, Sundays in the park, art, happiness, choices, fashion, lust, loneliness, friendship, adventure, honesty, making conversation, scenic views, people, music, dance, avoidance, communication, observation, summer, intelligence, panic, forgetting, agin, laughter, family values, prejudice, jealousy, past, future, youth, tranquility, grief, responsibility, self-improvement, self-actualization, carelessness, escaping and living life.
Rating: 5
Summary: the great gatsby review
Comment: The Great Gatsby was one of the best books I have ever read. Its takes place in Long island, New york in the summer of 1922. I really like New York since I have been there many times. This made the book better for me because i can relate to it more. The main character is named Nick Carraway. Nick is a young guy who has moved from minnesota to a district of Long Island called West Egg. West Egg is a very wealthy district. Nicks neighbor is a man named Jay Gatsby. Jay lives in a huge house and has parties ever saturday night. Fitzgerald does a good job of describing East and West Egg. He gives you a clear immage of what is going on and the various types of views. Throughout the book, there is a lot of chaos going on between the diferent couples which makes the story very interesting. I like how Fitzgerald describes Gatsby's house to be very gothic and prodiguous. Throughout the book you learn not only about Gatsby's past, but all the characters secrects.Almost all the characters in this book have or are cheating on the ones that they love.It was tricky to understand completely what was going on durring the book. Nick learns a lot about the people he meets in Long Island. Although most of the things he learns are not good things. Overall i thought this story was exiting and fun to read. Although I found it to be quite confusing at times. I would still recomend this book to all.
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Title: Catcher in the Rye Mass Market - Paperback by J.D. Salinger ISBN: 0316769487 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0553210092 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1965 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0142000663 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Cliffs Notes) by Cliffs Notes, Kate Maurer ISBN: 0764586017 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 05 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller ISBN: 0140481346 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 06 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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