/lit/ - Literature

>>18479254
The Great American novel without a doubt.

One of the 10 best novels ever. If you don't like it, it outs you as underage.

>>18479254
The Great Simpsby

gatsby simp lord

Tom was a chad

I ordered an old used copy of this published by scribner's sons. Is that good?

>>18479254
It’s a really incredible book. Some of the best prose ever written.

>>18479254
i don't know i only read iliad over and over

>>18479254
i like its themes

>>18479254
Good social commentary. Predicted the GD in a way, even

>>18479385
Based

The last paragraph is really wonderful.

>>18479254
How has this widely read work not gotten the 1984 treatment? For something held in the public consciousness I'm surprised by how pure it is.

>>18479624
Legbeards hate Fitzgerald for locking Zelda up in an insane asylum and for stifling her writing career

>>18479648
ah there it is

It’s not the most exciting novel, but it’s a perfect novel.

>>18479624
Are you sure? Half the articles online about it are about the sexuality of the characters.

>>18479677
Lol, I guess what I meant to say is that whenever you hear about it and you are not specifically looking it up online its usually pretty non toxic and reasonable takes. Like its just good and not really used as some social bludgeon nearly as much as other popular high-school tier literature.

>>18479693
I have seen some accusations of anti-semitism in his portrayal of Gatsby’s bootlegging associates.

But I’ve also seen Jews defend it by saying that the character was based on Arnold Rothstein who really was a Jewish bootlegger
And Fitzgerald wrote sympathetic Jewish characters in The Beautiful and Damned and The Last Tycoon.

read in my 20s
found it quite boring
planning to read it in my 30s

>>18479727
The classic optics vs reality debate -___-

>>18479393
Tom was a Chad indeed. a man of his era

It's my favorite. I'm doing the Hunter Thompson method with it.

>>18479377
nice try anon, but you have to be underage to enjoy this high school-tier piece of shit

>>18479254
It made an excellent movie. Like the owl-eyed character.

Great book. I liked it in high school, and my friends and I still make jokes about it

>>18479502
Not being ironic, this would probably be great for ones mindset.

>>18479254
Probably the worst book Ive ever read Id probably prefer a reread of Harry Potter or Da Vinci code.

I tried 4 times to get through it before I finished it. I found Moby Dick and James Joyce easier. Terrible, boring, crap and a general waste of time. Just cause Americans have to read it in school doesnt make it good.

Anything by Steinbeck and Vonnegut are superior if you want American.

I actually threw this book away because it was a waste of shelf space to keep it despite its small size.

0/5

>>18479377
Mate, its a book for school aged kids. If you find the prose exceptional and the stort enticing you need your head read. The only people who like it are people that only read books while at school. No person outside America ever rates it or puts it in a top 100 novels.

Nabakovs prose crushes Fitzgeralds pathetic attempt its like Tiger in his Prime vs a toddler with a stick. Not worth the comparison, because Fitzgerald is so pathetic he is better off compared to the likes of Meyer.

If Gatsby was his best work I cant imagine what his other books are like...

If you are 15 or so and want a simple coming of age novel go with Catcher in the Rye.

>>18479254
I liked This Side of Paradise much better

>>18479254
had to read it in high school
the only things i remember are "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" and also that guy who says gonnegtions

>>18483833
>Nabakovs prose crushes Fitzgeralds pathetic attempt its like Tiger in his Prime vs a toddler with a stick. Not worth the comparison, because Fitzgerald is so pathetic he is better off compared to the likes of Meyer.