The Great Gatsby
Ratings2,624
Average rating3.7
High 3 - I'm not good enough at reading to really understand this book on the first read. It's pretty clear it's brilliant in prose and themes. I found the story pretty boring at points though. I'll probably reread it at some point. I'm sure I'll have more interesting thought then.
It wasn't bad, I like the first and the last parts, didn't really care or like more of the middle part. In the end I still don't really understand what it was all about though. Gatsby was a hopeless romantic and that's kind of it. I wish I could say more about the book but I really have no clue what to say. It was interesting though how he died pretty much alone, even though it seemed like there was an abundance of people who happened to know him. Overall, I honestly didn't like the story if I think. Ik it's a classic and maybe I just didn't understand the significance and the meaning of a lot of it but it still doesn't change the fact that for the most part I was quite bored and the only interesting subject that kept me reading was Jay Gatsby. 2.75 or 3 out of 5 for me
Dnf at chapter 1.
Like most classics I've read before: boring. Maybe the genre is not for me and i should give up on it
Beautifully written, took some getting adjusted to his manner of prose but I now want more from Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby highlights a great sadness in life. We reach into the future, attempting to grasp at our past, only to find that it inevitably recedes away from us.
3/10
I guess the only thing I can say is that this book simply wasn't for me. How else can it be that I found it so extremely boring and incoherent.
If I am ever recommended a book in the category “Because you read The Great Gatsby” there is 0 chance of me reading that book.
Tragic, loved the movie and and enjoyed the book even more with the movie providing additional visuals.
Necesité 3 intentos para terminar El gran Gatsby.
Tal vez porque conocía la historia por las películas, nunca leí más allá de un par de páginas. Hoy lo hice, estoy muy feliz por ello. Puede resumir sentimientos complejos de la vida real como nadie.
El mensaje también es conmovedor.
Pobrecito Gatsby, creías en el sueño americano, creías en el amor, creías en todas las historias románticas y en las historias románticas, creías que podías pretender ascender. Que tu dinero te daría clase.Pero todo lo que necesitaba era una confrontación con Tom y tu castillo de naipes, tu imagen de cristal se hizo mil pedazos.Daisy ni siquiera estuvo nunca en tu mismo universo. Ella ES dinero, tu simplemente lo tienes temporalmente.Moriste solo, olvidado, descartado. Al mundo nunca le importaste realmente.
El libro golpea duro.
The whole time while reading this book....I was feeling so angry and sad at the same time.......this book is capable of make you imagining things hoping things and expect things.......loved every minutes of this
Rating: 3.56 leaves out of 5-Characters: 2/5-Cover: 2.75/5-Story: 2.75/5-Writing: 4/5Genre: Classic, Historical Fiction, Litfic, Romance-Classic: 5/5-HisFic: 5/5-LitFic: 5/5-Romance: 2/5Type: BookWorth?: EhHated Disliked Meh It Was Okay Liked LoveAhh a classic and all that belongs in it. Honestly, the most intriguing thing about this whole book was, not Daisy, but the undertones of Tom wanting Nick. I could care less about Gatsby and Daisy. I was bored with them. It was Tom and Nick all the way. If it hadn't had those two I think this book would have been rated very low. Snoozefest.Movie was actually better.
Long flight book 2.
I stayed with a cousin who put me into his early 20's daughter's room as she was busy backpacking in my own part of the world. I had a look at her bookcase, very small that it was by my standards, and noticed the famous The Great Gatsby. Later that evening, she rang her dad and spoke to me as well. I mentioned the book and asked her what she thought. She had seen the movie, I presume the most recent, and enjoyed it, so had got a Wentworth edition but had only half finished it. She did not particularly like it and lost interest. I could have it, she said.
Being only 136 pages long, it would be one to slip into on the long haul home.
I have to admit I have not been that enthralled with The Great Gatsby in terms of making me think it is essential reading. I do understand it is a comment on the excesses of The Roaring Twenties, but to my 100 years later mind there had the feel of a soap opera to it. Maybe that was the point?
The edition I read had some footnotes explaining a few of F. Scott Fitzgerald more subtle references that were useful but the feeling that I have had with reading classics later in life in that I understood the importance of them, that they possibly changed the way the populace at large thought about the event written about failed to get through. Why? Not sure. I may not be that into US literature per se. Other than Vonnegut and maybe a couple of others authors, I have tended to fail in this area
Se você é brasileiro recomendo ler Dom casmurro. However, this is a ok book at max, I understand the importance of it and I can see how it created the root for a lot of other books, I don't find it to be the best book I've read but it isn't the worst.
One of my favorite classics. I'm glad i read it now and not at high school, i don't think i would've appreciated it as much as i do now.
i mean its okay. once it gets interesting then its interesting but the start is very boring.
Quando o homem de “Olhos-de-Coruja” vai à festa de Gatsby, ou sendo mais específico, na primeira festa narrada por Nick, percebemos que ele está bêbado e observa a biblioteca de Jay com certo assombro e admiração. A razão disso está numa subversão de sua expectativa: os livros de Gatsby são reais.
Ele, além de Carraway, é o único que vê Jay Gatsby como alguém — não como um novo-rico para que se faça proveito de seu dinheiro, festas e mansão. Na realidade, após esse evento, o personagem passa a enxergar Gatsby como alguém real, apesar de Jay tomar uma posição de espectador distante em suas próprias festas, após essa interação na biblioteca, ele passa a ser um homem com desejos, interesses e vontade reais, tal como Nick o vê após tomar consciência dos seus anseios por Daisy. Por essa razão, ele é o único (novamente, além de Carraway) que comparece ao seu funeral.
Além disso, sabemos que Fitzgerald possui raízes irlandesas por sua família. Para a mitologia celta, a coruja é simbolizada como um prenúncio da morte.
“Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.”He took off his glasses and wiped them again outside and in.“The poor son-of-a-bitch,” he said.
I really enjoyed the Great Gatsby movie so I wanted to check out the book and read Fitzgerald for the first time.
I can now see that the movie did a great job adapting this less than 200 page book. The story was very atmospheric and descriptive. Fitzgerald continually makes you question the idea of the American Dream and if it's truly attainable.
We're all reaching out for our green light at the end of the dock.
3.5, would've been more fun if it was gayer and Gatsby ran away before he got killed. All in all blah blah blah hated that i had to read it for a class instead of on my own, makes reading books less fun.