The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
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.
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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There was a documentary on BBC2 just now about him, but I only caught the last 10 minutes.
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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.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Saw that and I have it recorded!klr wrote:There was a documentary on BBC2 just now about him, but I only caught the last 10 minutes.
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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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Well perhaps that was your personal gateway?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.
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Rum wrote:Well perhaps that was your personal gateway?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.
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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Of course they would.
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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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"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a false and dangerous fictional parable that has caused many a White woman to be raped or murdered.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.
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Time for your meds, Tyr...Tyrannical wrote:"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a false and dangerous fictional parable that has caused many a White woman to be raped or murdered.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.
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Actually it is time for my meds. How did you know?Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Time for your meds, Tyr...Tyrannical wrote:"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a false and dangerous fictional parable that has caused many a White woman to be raped or murdered.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.
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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.Tyrannical wrote:Rum wrote:Well perhaps that was your personal gateway?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.
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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Cary Mulligan...mmmmm, tasty. 'Nuff said.
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