Liked It
4 of 5 members found this review helpful.
“How moving that Fitzgerald’s simple choice of that green light blinking in the dark distance was to become the most powerful symbol of the American Dream in our literature. It’s like Charles Foster Kane and his “Rosebud.”
Well, it’s just a perfect novel. It towers over everything else Fitzgerald wrote, almost suspiciously so, as if he sold his soul to the devil (a very Gatsby thing to do) in order to write the Great American Novel. If so, the devil has a keen sense of irony. “The...”
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Didn’t Like It
“I know, it's classic literature, but I just never liked it much. Too much I felt it was written for the inevitable literary analysis, and not enough was put into just making a great book. Certainly, I think everyone should read it, because it is a classic, but I can't say it's a favorite, or even something I would voluntarily read a second time.”
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