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Great Gatsby | 
 enlarge | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 297722
Media: School & Library Binding
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1417656638
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9781417656639
ASIN: 1417656638
Publication Date: September 30, 2004
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Condition: 1953 Scribner's. Hardcover(Blue cover, black spine with gilt lettering), No dustjacket as issued, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 159 pages, New.
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 It's like a block of cheese, but in a good way November 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read this book at three different stages of my life: when I was a teen, when I was making the transition into adulthood, and when I had an active social life in part of a club scene. Each time I read this book it had a different meaning, and I've enjoyed it more as I've aged. I swear, reading the descriptions of the gossips and drunken flappers was made relevant by my having to deal continuously with their modern counterparts. As for the book itself, it's a good story, and the ending is especially nice if you like feeling down after reading. It's a fine book, well worth picking up again when it's no longer "required" reading.
The Summer of `22 November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Aside from the narrator, Mr. Carroway, who chances to be Gatsby's perceptive neighbor, we are the only ones who ever come to know the man. Everyone else sees only a fragment of him... if that. And he is far from what he appears to be. We ultimately know him as delusional, obsessive, pitiable, and needy. The fact is he's quite a bit like many of us; the difference is in the contrast between his external persona and his internal one. Fitzgerald's remarkable achievement in this book is in portraying Gatsby's dimensionality so completely in 180 pages. From shadowy playboy to abandoned corpse in 180 pages. And in the process Fitzgerald treats is to his remarkable craft:
"Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside - East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety."
"...there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings."
"Everyone suspects himself of at least one cardinal virtue..."
"He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could `come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden."
"...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes."
"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind..."
"At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the room."
 Yes, I Know Its a Classic but.... October 18, 2008
While I understand this book is denominated "a classic" (that's why I read it), it was just an OK read (for me).
I also just completed the online Sparks notes, and will readily and loudly announce just how much I truly missed in my reading. From the Sparks notes, I saw all the symbolism and historical implications that went whizzing past me. And from the perspective of literary accomplishment/social commentary, I am truly impressed.
But again, I can't get past that this was just an OK read for me. I can't really say I connected with any of the characters (although Gatsby was clearly the most sympathetic).
Frankly, I could have done very nicely without the overtly anti-semitic portrayal of Wolfscheim (and no, I can't excuse it, as simply an accurate historical reflection of the times).
I expect that many will be offended by a lukewarm review of a recognized classic. But like spinach, it may be healthful to eat, but just not taste that good. I guess it depends on what you are looking for.
The Great Gatsby October 12, 2008
Though I am deployed, amazon.com made it possible for me to order my son's college books at a reasonable price. The books were in the condition described and delivered within the time promised. Thank you
A Classic Tragedy September 1, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I don't suppose there are many who haven't heard of this book. A true masterpiece in every sense of the word. A tragic love story & tragic life story. Written in 1922 & timeless
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