The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby

Post by Rum » Sat May 18, 2013 8:56 pm

I thought I would go see the new film. It has had mixed reviews though and I realised I had never read the book.

I remedied that and have just completed it. Its is a great novel - no doubt about that.

Then I read up a bit about F. Scot F himself.

What a tragic life he seems to have had.

Anyway - is TGG 'the' American novel? I suspect it is. Seems to me to be all about the carved out empty shell hollowness of the American Dream. But the mood and language are special too.

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Post by klr » Sat May 18, 2013 9:00 pm

There was a documentary on BBC2 just now about him, but I only caught the last 10 minutes. :doh:
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Re: The Great Gatsby

Post by laklak » Sat May 18, 2013 9:03 pm

Some people claim it's the Great American Novel, but others say it's Moby Dick, or The Grapes of Wrath, or even Portnoy's Complaint. Personally, I think The Cat In The Hat Comes Back is a strong contender, but fuck off with that Horton Hatches a Who crap.
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Post by Rum » Sat May 18, 2013 9:06 pm

klr wrote:There was a documentary on BBC2 just now about him, but I only caught the last 10 minutes. :doh:
Saw that and I have it recorded! :tup:

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Post by Tyrannical » Sat May 18, 2013 9:30 pm

I wonder how much so called "great literature" would have survived if not for Classics Illustrated made sense of the cluster fuck of a book.
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Post by Rum » Sat May 18, 2013 9:34 pm

Tyrannical wrote:I wonder how much so called "great literature" would have survived if not for Classics Illustrated made sense of the cluster fuck of a book.
Well perhaps that was your personal gateway?

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Post by Tyrannical » Sat May 18, 2013 9:41 pm

Rum wrote:
Tyrannical wrote:I wonder how much so called "great literature" would have survived if not for Classics Illustrated made sense of the cluster fuck of a book.
Well perhaps that was your personal gateway?
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I once wrote a high school book report based on this. Though college expected "cliff notes" which couldn't be bothered with pictures.
Bedsides, if the book was that great they'd have made it into a movie anyways.
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Post by Rum » Sat May 18, 2013 9:43 pm

Of course they would.

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Post by Trinity » Sat May 18, 2013 10:26 pm

I always loved Catcher in the Rye; struck a chord with me, although probably because I was adolescent when I read it. I also loved Cannery Row and To Kill a Mockingbird. I guess I love the style of writing from these eras, evocative and well, just different, being another country and one I knew little about experientially until a few years ago.
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Post by Tyrannical » Sat May 18, 2013 10:38 pm

Trinity wrote:I always loved Catcher in the Rye; struck a chord with me, although probably because I was adolescent when I read it. I also loved Cannery Row and To Kill a Mockingbird. I guess I love the style of writing from these eras, evocative and well, just different, being another country and one I knew little about experientially until a few years ago.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a false and dangerous fictional parable that has caused many a White woman to be raped or murdered.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat May 18, 2013 11:01 pm

Tyrannical wrote:
Trinity wrote:I always loved Catcher in the Rye; struck a chord with me, although probably because I was adolescent when I read it. I also loved Cannery Row and To Kill a Mockingbird. I guess I love the style of writing from these eras, evocative and well, just different, being another country and one I knew little about experientially until a few years ago.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a false and dangerous fictional parable that has caused many a White woman to be raped or murdered.
Time for your meds, Tyr... :nono:
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Post by Seabass » Sat May 18, 2013 11:42 pm

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Post by Tyrannical » Sun May 19, 2013 12:32 am

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Tyrannical wrote:
Trinity wrote:I always loved Catcher in the Rye; struck a chord with me, although probably because I was adolescent when I read it. I also loved Cannery Row and To Kill a Mockingbird. I guess I love the style of writing from these eras, evocative and well, just different, being another country and one I knew little about experientially until a few years ago.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a false and dangerous fictional parable that has caused many a White woman to be raped or murdered.
Time for your meds, Tyr... :nono:
Actually it is time for my meds. How did you know?
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Sun May 19, 2013 1:51 am

Tyrannical wrote:
Rum wrote:
Tyrannical wrote:I wonder how much so called "great literature" would have survived if not for Classics Illustrated made sense of the cluster fuck of a book.
Well perhaps that was your personal gateway?
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I once wrote a high school book report based on this. Though college expected "cliff notes" which couldn't be bothered with pictures.
Bedsides, if the book was that great they'd have made it into a movie anyways.
My grandad knew an unknown someone who worked for CI, and I grew up with hundreds of these. It really was my introduction to literature; and even if there were some I never read, it at least gave me familiarity with authors and titles. I have wonderful memories of reading them - he had literally thousands of them. I was lucky enough to inherit them when he dies, when we also found about half a dozen of the original cover paintings, which are among my most prized possessions. I think CI did a massively good and admirable thing in introducing kids to world literature.
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Cary Mulligan...mmmmm, tasty. 'Nuff said. :naughty:
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