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General Reading: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    I LOVE HIM!!!!!

    despite the fact that I’ve only read The Great Gatsby.

    Let the debate begin, because we seem to have a lot of Fitzgerald h8rs here, and I personally think he is SOOOOOO misundrstud!!!1!!1!!!

    EDIT: I found this# GG parody and couldn’t stop laughing.

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2009
     

    I liked Great Gatsby, good ending, but haven’t read any of his other works.

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    The Great Gatsby was pretty good. And if it counts, I thought the Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the film version) was okay.

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    That’s totally different to the short story though, apparently.

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      CommentAuthorVirgil
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2009
     

    The film was great. I dunno about the short story though.

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    I keep seeing it in hardcover editions for thirty bucks. It’s ONE SHORT STORY!

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    That’s ridiculous. Thirty bucks for… What the heck, why is one short story even in hardcover? It’s either a collection of short stories or a novel.

    /overreaction over

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    I guess the publishers wanted to cash in on the movie… but were too stupid to realize that no one will buy a short story for that much.

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    Well, it’s a pretty edition. They might sell it.

    (Oh, by the way, that’s thirty bucks AUD, not USD.)

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    (I know, I know. I’m simply very, very stingy.)

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      CommentAuthorswenson
    • CommentTimeSep 17th 2009 edited
     

    Meh. I don’t like Great Gatsby. All of the characters are horrible, petty people who do terrible things to one another.

    Convince me otherwise.

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    Meh. I don’t like Great Gatsby. All of the characters are horrible, petty people who do terrible things to one another.

    ^^This.

    I think that they are supposed to be that, but Nick and Gatsby might be supposed to be likeable. I hated them all. I was happy when each aweful character died. I don’t mind books where the characters are all mean and aweful, but there has to be at least one likeable character. This character needn’t be virtuous or anything like that; they just need to have some sort of redeeming quality to make them relateable. I couldn’t empathize with any of the characters, and I’m a very good empathizer.

    I didn’t like Benjamin Button the movie, and I haven’t read the short story. The move just really, really disappointed me. I was all hyped up to see, and it was like, “That’s it?” Plus, I don’t care for the female lead (Cate Blanchett?). It was well-acted though. I was just let down by it.

    Maybe, the harcover book has more short stories in it as well…

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      CommentAuthorJeni
    • CommentTimeSep 18th 2009
     

    Despite having to read The Great Gatsby for three courses I’ve done… I still haven’t.

    However, I have read and enjoy a lot of his other short stories. Of course I can only remember one title and that would be Bernice Bobs Her Hair.

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    Meh. I don’t like Great Gatsby. All of the characters are horrible, petty people who do terrible things to one another.

    ———————————-The point of the novel ———————————->

    the moon

    a cloud shaped like an ostrich

    the empire states building

    a drunk fly

    Your head.

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    Lol.

    I also got the impression that Gatsby was supposed to be likeable, and yet I couldn’t like him. He was too fixated on money, and mixed the idea of Daisy and the idea of money into one thing. But he had such a hopefulness and an unselfishness about him (when Daisy wasn’t concerned), that I can’t not like him either.

    Nobody still knows who Gatsby is…

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    I kind of liked Wilson because he was depressingly pathetic, and I felt bad for him.

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    Woah, are you me in disguise?

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    ^^Yes, yes I am. I can’t believe you figured it out.

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    Tom Wilson was a rotter.

    What did everybody think of Daisy? I kind of got the impression that she didn’t know what she wanted, rather than that she was leading Gatsby on.

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      CommentAuthorswenson
    • CommentTimeOct 21st 2009
     

    I always thought she was just stupid, not that she was leading Gatsby on.

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    I always thought she was just stupid, not that she was leading Gatsby on.

    Same. I hated her. I hated her even more than I hated Myrtle (or however you spell it). I hated Daisy the most out of everyone. She was stupid and inconsiderate of everyone. She was self-centered and only did things that served her.

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    Yeah, you spell it like that.

    Jordan Baker wasn’t that nice either.

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      CommentAuthorswenson
    • CommentTimeOct 22nd 2009
     

    No, not really. Although I don’t think she was ever painted in an even slightly sympathetic light- both she and the narrator knew the whole time that they didn’t love each other.

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    Jordan Baker wasn’t that nice either.

    Yeah, I didn’t like her either. The whole metaphor about how she can drive poorly because everyone else is watching out for her, and then her getting mad at Nick when he started “driving” poorly in their relationship because only she was allowed to do that was irritating.

    And I agree with swenson.

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    I think Nick was slightly infatuated with her, partly because he wanted to be like Gatsby and have a girlfriend, too. He even says that unlike Gatsby he didn’t have a girl whose face floated in the air for him and then he looked at the real substantial girl version and drew her up beside him.

    But he redeems himself by disassociating himself with them and dumping Jordan.

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    he wanted to be like Gatsby and have a girlfriend, too.

    That’s an interesting way of looking at it. I imagine a little kid whining to his mom about how “But Gatsby has one!”

    But he redeems himself by disassociating himself with them and dumping Jordan.

    True.

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    That’s an interesting way of looking at it. I imagine a little kid whining to his mom about how “But Gatsby has one!”

    I know what that sounded like when I read it, but I couldn’t think of a better way to describe it. I don’t know, it’s like when you make do with second best because you want something really really badly.

    True.

    Thankyou.

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    it’s like when you make do with second best because you want something really really badly.

    That may make sense, though I actually liked Jordan better than Daisy. She didn’t annoy me as much, and she seemed a little smarter, although still incredibly self-centered. I know that in the novel, Daisy is supposed to be considered by everyone to be “teh awsum!!1”

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    I wasn’t talking from my perspective, I was talking from Nick’s. Not that I think he wanted Daisy.

    It was funny, cause when we first read the novel as a class, everyone thought from the way that Nick described her, that it was he and Daisy who were going to fall in love.

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    ^^I figured you meant Nick’s perspective. I don’t think anyone in my class thought that Nick and Daisy would end up together. Although most people in my class thought that Nick was the main character just because he was the narrator. Even when the teacher tried to explain it to them, they still thought that he had to be because it was from his point of view.

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      CommentAuthorswenson
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2009
     

    About Jordan being self-centered, though, at least she came straight out and admitted it. She was extremely honest, which is why, of all the characters, I sort of didn’t mind her as much. Her and Nick are the only remotely likable characters in the entire thing (although I always felt bad for the husband in the end), and even then they aren’t painted in a particularly favorable way either.

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    I sort of didn’t mind her as much. Her and Nick are the only remotely likable characters in the entire thing (although I always felt bad for the husband in the end),

    This is true. By “the husband,” do you mean Wilson? I sort of liked him anyway, but it was really because he was just pathetic and didn’t have much or a part. I like this exchange from the movie between he and Myrtle:

    Wilson: Looks at Dr. TJ Eckelburg poster through the window after having locked Myrtle in the house for being “bad” He’s [meaning God] always watching us.
    Myrtle: It’s an advertisement!

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      CommentAuthorswenson
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2009
     

    Yeah, Wilson, that’s his name. I couldn’t remember, although I thought it started with a “W”.

    He was pretty pathetic, though, but I still liked him a bit- it wasn’t his fault his wife was a shrew.

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    it wasn’t his fault his wife was a shrew.

    Exactly, and he seemed like he would’ve been an okay guy if he had just married a little better. He even avenged (he thought) his adulterous wife.

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    Yeah, I liked George Wilson. He did stand up for himself at the end. But… oh, what I really hate is Gatsby and Daisy just driving off after they

    SPOILERS:

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      CommentAuthorswenson
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2009
     

    ^^YES. THIS. VERY MUCH SO. I think this was the final straw that meant I simply couldn’t like either Gatsby or Daisy any longer.

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    Yeah.

    ALso, i’ve found a really awesome GG parody. The link’s in the OP.

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    Why, just yesterday he finished The Idiot’s Guide to Bigotry.

    This made me lol.

    psychedelic rainbow taxi with yellow and green checks where the black and white ones should be. It’s very hip, if not illegal.

    Haha.

    The parody is awesome.

    You know, it took him forever to pick a title, and he didn’t even like the one he ended up with.

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    Yes, I did. I do read the introductions to my Lit texts, you know. Although I personally think that Under Red White and Blue would’ve stunk.

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    I like the “Ash Heaps of the Rich and Famous” or whatever that one was. It’s just sounds… different. I don’t think most people would’ve liked it though.

    There was no intro to my book. I just looked it up for no apparent reason.

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    Lol :)

    • CommentAuthorMnemone
    • CommentTimeDec 4th 2011
     
    "The Greatest Gatsby Comics Ever":http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=259

    "Great Gatsby for the NES":http://greatgatsbygame.com/
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      CommentAuthorswenson
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2011
     

    Ah, good ol’ Hark! A Vagrant. That one’s great. :)

    What baby?

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