Review - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Title: The Great Gatsby
Series: N/A
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genre: Classic, Fiction
Publisher: Scribner
Received: Purchased
Release Date: 1925
Pages: 180
Rating:



What is it About?

A Man named Gatsby, his friends and his interesting life.

My Thoughts:

This book has often been described as Fitzgerald’s most beautiful piece of work and frankly I do not see it. I first read this book as a teenager for fun and remember disliking it immensely but later not remembering why. Now that I ave reread it I realize what that is. The type of people described and the way they act irk me. They are well off family surrounded by people that do
things to each other with no feelings. They just keep hurting each other without caring about the consequences.

In the beginning of the book it is very boring and does not become interesting until Gatsby becomes involved in the story but the way people act towards one another.

I do not really see the beauty in this story but I do see commentary on society I just do not agree with it.

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Theme Thursday - Smile - Gatsby

Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event that will be open from one thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  Ex: If the theme is KISS; your sentence can have “They kissed so gently” or “Their lips touched each other” or “The smooch was so passionate”

This will give us a wonderful opportunity to explore and understand different writing styles and descriptive approaches adopted by authors.

This week’s theme is

SMILE (Laugh, Grin, Giggle, Guffaw, etc)

 

turned right to this one.

"We've met before," muttered Gatsby. His eyes glanced momentarily at me and his lips parted with an abortive attempt at a LAUGH." The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

WWW Wednesday - July 6th 2011

WWW Wednesday is a event that takes place at  Should Be Reading Blog

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

WHAT I AM CURRENTLY READING:

The Fairy Godmother (Five Hundred Kingdoms) by Mercedes Lackey

This book is really a different take on the fairy tale Cinderella so far I am liking it alot.

Verita (Verita Trilogy) by Tracy Rozzlynn

This is Sci Fi which is a genre I am finding I like more then I thought I would. 

Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth

So far I found most of this eye opening but I don't know if it is going to have a real effect on my eating habit. Something has got to give though.

The Professor Was a Thief (Stories from the Golden Age) by L Ron Hubbard

This is one of Hubbard's mystery's .  I haven't actually started just yet so I don't know how it is going to be I have never read anything by him.

WHAT I JUST FINISHED:

My America: My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Civil War Diary, Book One by Mary Pope Osborne

All the different My America and Dear America always seem so dark and end sadly.  This one isn't as sad because it is book one but still our history is so dark sometimes.

WHAT I WILL READ NEXT:


The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I read this once before when I was very young and hated it.  I don't remember any of it and I heard the vlogbrothers are reading it so I thought why not try it again now.


No Future For You (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 2) by Brian K. Vaughan and Joss Whedon
I bought the second volume at Wizard World Comic Con and decided to read this part of the comic again.