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3489244 No.3489244 [Reply] [Original]

This was a good book, but didn't come close to deserving the praise it gets.

>> No.3489278

Please tell me more about your superior knowledge of literature, dear anonymous.

>> No.3489285

>>3489278
Why don't you put me in my place?

>> No.3489299

>>3489285
He already did. You blind?

>> No.3489300

>>3489285
/lit/ - Sarcasm

>> No.3489310

>>3489299
>>3489300
That's just a quip, tell me why I'm wrong. Or are you just doing the mature, adult thing and parroting the critic?

>> No.3489324

>>3489310
you are wrong because you fail to state any argument at all, dumbass

>> No.3489328

>>3489310
Sure, please let me waste more time than I already am just to explain why Gatsby is a deserving piece of art to some passive-agressive cunt on 4chan when he could just fucking google it

>> No.3489333

>>3489244
Yes

>> No.3489342

>>3489324
If you want to state that this is an extraordinary book then it's your argument to make.

>>3489328
You don't need to post here if you don't want to.

>> No.3489348

>>3489342
i don't need to make an argument, as you yourself didn't feel the need to.
so here's my argument:
you are a cunt

>> No.3489352

>>3489348
A mediocre post for a mediocre book.

>> No.3489353

>>3489352
good judgement

>> No.3489360
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3489360

Y'all posting in a troll thread;
Shit posting everywhere;
Like bullets fuzzing in the air.
Fuckin' /lit/;
sometimes you make me sick.

>> No.3489371

>>3489360
Plus, you should ignore axioms.

>> No.3489380

I would say that the fact that everyone can read it and say that it's a good book demonstrates why it's great. Compare to Joyce, whom a few art school faggots masturbate daily over muttering "2deep4u, not4me", but the rest of the world can't stomach.

>> No.3489390

>>3489380
>the rest of the world can't stomach joyce

I'm too dumb to read ulysses*
ftfy

>> No.3489395

It was a good book, but I found it a little boring.

>> No.3489400

>>3489395
Really? It's so condensed.

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3489401

>>3489390

Yeah. That's the one.

>> No.3489414

>>3489401
>can't understand something
>blame the thing

yup, american

>> No.3489423

And not one coherent statement was made that day...

>> No.3489445

>>3489310
>Burden of proof

>> No.3489472

>>3489445
>>3489342

>> No.3491425

lol at all the serious litfags defendind this book

it's an ok book, nothing more. It tries too hard and fails on most counts. It is supposed to be a critique of the posh lifestyle but by focusing only on it seems more to encourage than deride it.

Worth a read but agree with OP, not worthy of the lauding praise.

>> No.3491498

I agree with OP to some extent. I think it is a very good book that gets better each time I read it, but I don't think it's the "greatest work of american literature" that some people think it is

>> No.3491524

How about we all just unite in opposition to the guy who thinks Joyce is nauseating?

>> No.3491542 [DELETED] 

>>3491524
how about no

>> No.3491579

>>3491524
I can't because I disagree with him. Joyce is good writing guy. Lots of people get snobby about Bach too, but that doesn't make his work inherently nauseating.

Lots of people are snobby about the fact that they read at all, for that matter.

>> No.3491702

>>3491425
>focusing only on/encouraging [the posh lifestyle]
Did you even read the book?
What grey wasteland lies between the two clusters of civilization?
Where did Gatsby come from again?
Who out of the wealthier characters in the book appeared fulfilled or even happy by the conclusion?

Just because Fitzgerald didn't underline his message, surround it in neon lights and draw massive arrows pointing towards it, doesn't mean there isn't a social commentary.

>> No.3491709

Gatsby is a perfect novel. At least in terms of language. Every word feels necessary. Something you don't get with most books.

Best American novel? Of course not. Large and ambitious will always beat out short and sweet. It just takes a better class of writer to develop an idea to the point where it requires a tome's worth of pages to communicate the message, whilst keeping the reader engaged the whole way through.

>> No.3491714

>>3491709
I agree with the first line of your post.

But I can't tell if you're being sarcastic in the second line? Either way I'm not sure how I feel about that statement.

>> No.3491721

>>3491702
Funnily enough he does deliver part of his message through pretty transparent symbolism. Remembers the giant eye-glasses? And the green light at the end of the dock? The novel is still great, but I don't think it's a triumph of subtlety or anything.