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1846572 No.1846572 [Reply] [Original]

what age were you when you read The Great Gatsby, did you understand and enjoy it at that age?

>> No.1846576

I was 35, and I still don't understand it fully.

>> No.1846580

11
And while I realize now that I didn't fully understand it, I did enjoy it a lot.

>> No.1846584

I first read it when I was 22. I didn't really understand it because I read it in summer and it was really warm out, and when it's warm I tend to be really sleepy/drowsy so I kept dozing off. I'll have to read it again.

>> No.1846588

>>1846580
I was eleven too.

Pretty sure I understood it, unless Dunning-Krueger and I still don't understand it now (the metaphors, while pretentiously over/underwrought, were ultimately transparent), but I've never enjoyed it. It's boring and the style annoys the piss out of me; The only positive aspect is its brevity.

>> No.1846589

>>1846580
I tried to read it when I was about that age as well but the language at that time was a little too complicated for me (I felt like I wasn't taking anything in or really reading it at all) so I gave up, was it like that for you or was I just not as intelligent enough at that age to truly understand the language.

>> No.1846591

16

I pretty sure understood most of it. I enjoyed very much and plan on rereading it again sometime.

>> No.1846593

>>1846589
Not really, I understood the language quite easily.
But on the other hand I never met another eleven year old who read it, so I wouldn't know the norm.

>> No.1846595

You mean money doesn't make you happy?

HOLY SHIT

Too bad the author never even had money so I doubt he knew what he was talking about. I know he's trying to make a cultural statement, but the most important part of life I've found is more how you personally deal with whatever anyone demands of you, so this book seems a bit childish.

Even at its release it got the same kind of criticism, I think its legend outlived it worth and I'm certainly not the only one thinking that.

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1846607

Somewhere in my 90s I think.

>> No.1846612

>>1846595
Are you stupid?

>> No.1846775

>>1846595
>money doesn't make you happy
Even looking past the fact that Fitzgerald is widely credited with defining the Jazz Age with this book, a couple of things.
Did you finish the book? Are you aware of the romance plot and Gatsby's real identity? It's more then money.

>> No.1846795

>>1846775
>>1846775
>then
yes