Name: The Great Gatsby
ISBN: 9780774033046

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby

clara

Stephanie 

Nica

Victoria Justice

Caitlin

nita

kemi

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

Still thinking about this and how I would answer it. 

Every one 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.

akshita

He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on 

 with an irresistible prejudice in your favour. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

Sierra

Kaitlyn Grace

Reilly C.

talataia

sharkie

Lucía RG

The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, "The Great Gatsby," is often hailed as a literary classic, yet despite its acclaim, it left me with mixed feelings. While the novel is not boring by any means, it also didn't elicit a "wow" factor for me, ultimately earning it a modest three-star rating. 

One notable aspect of the story is the complex relationship between Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. The undeniable closeness and intense interest Nick displays towards Gatsby do raise questions about the nature of their connection. Some readers may interpret it as a form of unrequited love or admiration bordering on infatuation. While this interpretation adds depth to the characters' dynamics, the novel does not explicitly explore or confirm such feelings. "

The Great Gatsby” helps readers picture the roaring `20s vividly by featuring this era's allure, glamour, and dark underbelly. Fitzgerald's prose perfectly captures the opulence and superficiality of the era while also delving into themes of unattainable dreams, social class divisions, and the destructive power of obsession.

Despite these strengths, the novel didn't completely captivate me. While it provides a compelling critique of "the American Dream" and the emptiness that can come with wealth and glamour, I found myself longing for deeper character development and a more nuanced exploration of the themes. The narrative can feel somewhat detached, with characters that, while intriguing, often remain enigmatic and distant. The characters felt like they hadn't yet reached their full potential.

Tali ⋆.˚🦋༘⋆

Rating: 2.5 stars

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, "The Great Gatsby," is often hailed as a literary classic, yet despite its acclaim, it left me with mixed feelings. While the novel is not boring by any means, it also didn't elicit a "wow" factor for me, ultimately earning it a modest three-star rating. 

One notable aspect of the story is the complex relationship between Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. The undeniable closeness and intense interest Nick displays towards Gatsby do raise questions about the nature of their connection. Some readers may interpret it as a form of unrequited love or admiration bordering on infatuation. While this interpretation adds depth to the characters' dynamics, the novel does not explicitly explore or confirm such feelings. "

The Great Gatsby” helps readers picture the roaring `20s vividly by featuring this era's allure, glamour, and dark underbelly. Fitzgerald's prose perfectly captures the opulence and superficiality of the era while also delving into themes of unattainable dreams, social class divisions, and the destructive power of obsession.

Despite these strengths, the novel didn't completely captivate me. While it provides a compelling critique of "the American Dream" and the emptiness that can come with wealth and glamour, I found myself longing for deeper character development and a more nuanced exploration of the themes. The narrative can feel somewhat detached, with characters that, while intriguing, often remain enigmatic and distant. The characters felt like they hadn't yet reached their full potential.

A tragic love story, a mystery, and a social commentary on American life.

The Great Gastby

Kat 

Tony Tanner

Great Gatsby

Incredibly well written in a way that leaves me bereft of sympathy for the characters. I enjoyed it a lot.

Liam Richardson

THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the bearutiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drinnk and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
(back cover)

A true classic. I never read this book before and I’m glad I wasn’t forced to do so when I was in school. I think this book is far more profound when you’re in your mid twenties.

Joe Ricupero

The Great Gatsby, by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, is one of the great novels of twentieth-century literature. Set in the Long Island of 1922, it provides a critical social history of America during the “Roaring Twenties”, an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the “Jazz Age”, known for unprecedented economic prosperity, the evolution of jazz music, flapper culture, and bootlegging and other criminal activity. A historic period when “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession”, as classified by The New York Times.

If ever there was a book that can be called beautiful for the way it's written then this has to be it. Every chapter of this book gradually reveals us the man behind the myth that is Mr. Gatsby. The story isn't that dense but it's not about what it contains, it's about how it's described. 

I haven't watched the movie yet, but couldn't stop visualizing DiCaprio as Gatsby.

Adwait Kulkarni

If ever there was a book that can be called beautiful for the way it's written then this has to be it. Every chapter of this book gradually reveals us the man behind the myth that is Mr. Gatsby. The story isn't that dense but it's not about what it contains, it's about how it's described. 

I haven't watched the movie yet, but couldn't stop visualizing DiCaprio as Gatsby.

So different from tender is the night, the other hit of his. But such a page turner! The first chapter is to be remembered forever and the last chapter is tragic. I, not knowing it is foreshadowed in the first chapter, was so intrigued in this.

korfai 

Beautiful language, vivid descriptions, little emotion. 

llikaditoo 

Why did I leave this book feeling very emotional? Like stereotypical girl on her period emotional 

Abbi Brown 

Romance of the century. Deep, sorrowful, and full of words that flow like poetry.

there is a line which explains daisy’s voice to be “full of money” and this line sticks with me for a very long time…i think that a marriage, between buchanan and daisy is something only they can understand, it is not always about money. and i assume that, gatsby only thought of daisy to be with someone who can “afford her most” which is in fact, untrue. it is lineage. it is heritage. it is education and family. i always relate myself to gatsby for a very long time by watching the movie, making beauty to be something to achieve…fast cars, skyscrapers or a network of people. but when i read the book, clearly, gatsby does not have any lineage. he was not born into wealth but he had to work his way up. his backstory a little murky and his family a little unclear. this creates gatsby to be a “shady person” to me where else tom came from person a and goes to school b. i think what daisy really wants from gatsby is clarity. where is the truth in all of this mess. whereas, with tom it is CLEAR that this is a marriage, everything with him is factual and real. not an illusion and a party trick to please someone like the east egg-sters. i think…i would like to delve into this complex more,,,, perhaps in my own time.

cal ⭐️

i fully imagined jordan to look like an overtanned, jersey shore with a straight balayage but ik thats not very 1920s

i didnt know this book was so good like reading gossip girl, i always just chucked it tgt with boring classics

william wukkuan

i fully imagined jordan to look like an overtanned, jersey shore with a straight balayage but ik thats not very 1920s

i didnt know this book was so good like reading gossip girl, i always just chucked it tgt with boring classics

This book is a love story told in a third person point of view. I loved every detail of the narrator’s friendship with the characters to the point where I feel his personal connection to Gatsby. So reading the last few chapters were sad and quite solemn. I just wish I saw how Daisy would’ve reacted with the unfortunate events of Gatsby’s fate. This book touched me to the point where I wonder what their life could have been if the accident never happened. And if Daisy would’ve stood her ground and left Tom for good. But the ending felt like we, the readers, were not meant to find out. Perhaps Daisy thought it was a good enough reason to erase Gatsby from her life and to fully commit to her daughter and Tom. 

Maxine Erica

I recall reading this when I was young and really enjoying it. Sometimes I wish I may be taken under the wing of a rich, wise, old man too.

Throckmorton

This new edition of The Great Gatsby includes a foreword by critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith, as well as an exclusive extract of his forthcoming novel, NICK, which imagines narrator Nick Carraway's life before he meets Gatsby Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century. 'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' - Sunday Times 'More than an American classic; it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the Amercian dream' - Guardian

Kirsten Kim

This was such a sad and wonderous book. I loved it so much. There was always a solemn feel to it as if you knew what would happen in the end and hated it. I loved the way Fitzgerald introduced the harsh reality of the romance between Daisy and Gatsby towards the end. You could hear the desperation and longing but alas, it could not happen.

Anna 

** spoiler alert **
           i am quite disappointed with this book. i expected THAT amazing gatsby that became one of the most famous book characters of 20th century, but i didn't really find that person in this book. gatsby is full of mysteries, but not in a good and cool way mysterious, but in an annoying please-just-tell-me-already way. does that even make sense? he is just like every other man, not really original in any way. even tom had more unique personality traits than gatsby.
the main character, nick, also didn't really have any personality except for telling us the story about that great gatsby that actually wasn't great at all. 
the parties? expected them to be described way more beautifully, i couldn't really imagine the mood and the overall aesthetic of the 'roaring 20s'. 
and the end just was not it for me. at first i didn't even understand how gatsby died, my classmate had to explain it to me. kinda humiliating, i know. 
what happened to daisy? why did jordan get engaged all of a sudden? what why when who?? i have many questions and no answers.
it's probably just 'me thing', my friends really enjoyed this book, but i sadly didn't find it interesting at all.

when you just want to pursue your career but you ended up getting dragged in everybody else's business. 😂

lala

I read this book like, a couple years back but totally forgot about it and decided to buy a copy at Maruzen Sendai. I was completely amazed by how hauntingly beautiful this book is. I'd say that despite being published in the 20s, the book is easy to read and easy to feel consumed in the story. The premise is simple, the narrative is not complex but you feel the gut-wrenching effect of delving into Gatsby's illusion of love. The Great Gatsby offers us a great narrator that made the 'greatness' of Gatsby put in a place of his admirer, Nick. The dialogue does not give us answers, but the act of the characters do. I would recommend this as an easy read for someone.

Bria

I definitely pretended to read this for my ap lit class like 10 years ago because I couldn’t get into it. I actually read it this time, and I still couldn’t get into it. I don’t get the hype. Gatsby is a creep, and Daisy lives a sad, unhappy life. Nick is a great narrator, though.

kalenga 

Wtf is this 😭😭😭 I just did not enjoy this book no matter how entranced I was to pick it up, I could not care less about any of the characters, the women are whiny, the men are boring and the parties are so over the top. The "romance" in this book isn't even romance so don't even try to advertise it as a chase for love because there's literatly not even an ounce of real love in this like wtf. I don't see how this book can be considerded a must read 💀💀 Don't waste your time guys. 

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