Reading /lit/ starter kit 3/20

[Anonymous No.21637997]

The Great Gatsby. I wouldn't say it's a good, but I wouldn't say it was a bad either. It was ok. This is a personal take because I'm not (and never was) into the romance genre, and I can understand how someone who likes that genre would fall in love with this book. 6/10 (Consider this as a "little above average" book score)

That said, I will only focus the post on the positive: I enjoyed the characters, specially Gatsby and Tom. Most chapters are entertaining from start to end. Chapter 7 and 8 were amazing, if written differently it could have been a very good mystery novel. It was a short novel, I think I read it in 4 or 5 days. The author was very progresive for making the protagonist gay or bisexual in a book of 1925 (Or at least, that's my interpretation of Nick, due to the end of chapter 2 and the Gatsby funeral)

[Anonymous No.21638001]

>>21637997
progress

first thread: >>/lit/thread/S21600555#p21600555

[Anonymous No.21638010]

>>21637997
Now tell us what the book was about.

[Anonymous No.21638016]

File Gatsby in the "do not read if you're younger than 25" folder. You won't get it. Wait until you're older and have a few regrets and mistakes under your belt.

[Anonymous No.21638021]

>>21638001
>Feb 1
We are Feb 9. It took you 8 days to read a 150 page novella.
Leave this board and never return.

[Anonymous No.21638032]

>>21638021

>being mad at people savoring the books they read and taking their time instead of autistically trying to finish as many books as possible to impress people who don't care

[Anonymous No.21638043]

>>21638010
A man moves to the middle-west side of the country. There he meets with his cousin and his husband. His neighbor is a super rich guy with a mansion who hosts parties for unknown people. His neighbor was the lover of his cousin 5 years ago and he moved specifically there to live close to her. The characters have a lot of mistakes by having affairs all the time.

>>21638016
I'm 20 so it checks out

>>21638021
>Leave this board
Dude, you don't know how to read and you are on /lit/. I clearly said in my post I read it in 4 or 5 days. Also, that's the first post and this is the third one, since feb 9 I read this book AND 1984.

[Anonymous No.21638053]

>>21638043
>I clearly said in my post I read it in 4 or 5 days.
Your pace is glacial.

[Anonymous No.21638061]

>>21637997
What are you gonna read next?

[Anonymous No.21638062]

>>21638021
Go back to watching your booktok content creators.

[Anonymous No.21638063]

>>21638016
I should also clarify that this assessment goes for the rest of Fitzgerald's work in general as well.

[Anonymous No.21638068]

>>21638062
He says in a thread filled with booktokcore novels.

[Anonymous No.21638080]

>>21638062
I don't know yet, I normally take 1 day or more between books because I don't like to end a book and immediatly after open another one. I prefer to let the previous book to sink in and then move into the next one. Also, I would like to avoid spoilers.

[Anonymous No.21638099]

>>21638043
What does Gatsby truly feel for Daisy? How does this change throughout the book? Was his nostalgic image of the "Virgin Princess" Daisy ever accurate to her true character? If not, does he realize this and how does he react?

[Anonymous No.21638152]

>>21638099
He loves her because they fell in love before the war, then he went to war and saved himself for her. While Daisy met 6 men per day, he was fighting in the war thinking about her. After 5 years of war, making his dream to "come back and marry her", he was completely obsessed about her. Of course, when he found it she was married and with a children he was kind of awkward and nervous to her (When Nick arranges the tea party). Then he tried to "fight" for her, by rivalizing with her husband. Even when she hits Mrs Wilson, he is still obsessed about her, that's why he spies on her house at night.
At least those are my views about it. I might get it wrong because, as I said, I don't like romance.

[Anonymous No.21638226]

>>21638152
There is one vital distinction that you miss. Jay is not obsessed with her; he is obsessed with his own "memory" or "image" of her. Things are not always what they seem, and facing the harsh reality can sometimes be even more difficult than staying in your own realm of delusion, where you make the rules.

[Anonymous No.21638667]

>>21638016


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[Anonymous No.21638956]

>>21638016
Yes, though on a purely prose-style basis Gatsby is fantastic and can be appreciated by those who are otherwise filtered by a lack of relatable characters.

[Anonymous No.21639172]

>>21638001
Do you have the second thread?

[Anonymous No.21639808]

>>21639172
I may have inflated the score for 1984. I wrote the post at the moment of finishing it, so I was still emotional about the ending.
>>/lit/thread/S21613355

[Anonymous No.21639815]

>>21639808
>>21639172
Now, I would say I enjoyed 1984 almost the same as Lord of the Flies

[Anonymous No.21639823]

>>21638053
>>21638021
At times like these I am tempted to say "have sex" but I shan't. Nobody cares how many books you read, you read them for yourself.

[Anonymous No.21641328]

when it comes to Gatsby, the movie was unironically much better than the book

[Anonymous No.21641339]

>>21638068
Gatsby is literally one of the women red flag books

[Anonymous No.21641733]

>>21638021
I'm so sorry for having a job and a family