So, I'm about three chapters deep into The Great Gatspy in my first serious attempt at being literate since being forced to read Catcher in the Rye in school, which I ultimately ended up liking.
So far, I like it. That is all.
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Anonymous2007-07-31 4:16 ID:zWLtz5rW
GATSPY DIES!!!!
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Anonymous2007-07-31 4:27 ID:sAEWWcY4
Umm... It's spelled Gatsby
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Anonymous2007-08-01 21:37 ID:rePthxNs
I just finished it. Good book.
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Anonymous2007-09-05 23:55 ID:/VbU/Kaa
You're kidding right? That was the worst piece of literary shit that someone ever squeezed out of their puckered turd hole. The only good part was the end when they all died.
its decent not amazing, the characters are flat, pathetic but at times there are moments of brilliance. Fitzgerald has the ability to focus on the weakest characters of humanity and by doing so, forces us all to look within ourselves and find the self-same qualities. sometimes, that is good. At others it makes us want to throw the book through the nearest window.
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Anonymous2007-09-08 19:33 ID:nBrGl+S4
Amen to that. Studied that book in highschool, never want to see it again despite liking some of it.
The way they expose children to these borebooks in their formative years, they only guarantee that people have little taste for such bullshit in later life. I'd rather have crushed granules of glass rolled under my eyelids than read "Old Man and the Sea" again. The same goes for Hawthorne and Salinger and this Fitzgerald fucko.
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Anonymous2007-09-10 9:30 ID:LIfPhGnQ
>>13
Totally agree, they're awful books to introduce schoolkids to, dry, dull irrelevant shit. Shakespeare is mostly loathed too, which is a shame because later on you can appreciate it a lot more than when you're 15 and its boring the shit out of you in class.
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Anonymous2007-09-11 14:02 ID:uoDdZpU2
i never read the great gatsby in school, but i picked it up later on and i actually liked it, it was an okay book. i do however feel about most books i read in school like the people here do about the great gatsby, maybe there's a connection!
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Anonymous2007-09-14 4:45 ID:4n/SjGjy
isnt gatsby soem kind of hairwax
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Anonymous2007-09-15 14:59 ID:sTp93PDx
I liked it, you all probably would too if the entire thing was read to you by vishal roney.
OP, while being "literate" is a noble goal and will score you mad points with the flabby-BA-in-English set who waitress at your local bar/restaurant, it will ultimately turn into an uphill, onerous battle if your motivations are largely based upon assumptions of status imparted by your endeavors. Don't get me wrong, I have slid off a panty or two for for dropping even major literary allusions, but it is far better to do a bit of research to figure out what you would like rather than pulling from the standard HS/College reading list or durp-durp common knowledge about book-learnin' (I hur Dickuns is a must).