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The Great Gatsby
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Ashley Marie 's review
bookshelves: classics, i-own-it, wtf-did-i-just-read, audiobook-would-recommend
Jan 28, 2017
bookshelves: classics, i-own-it, wtf-did-i-just-read, audiobook-would-recommend
Bumped down to 2.5 stars because I never realized FSF plagiarized his wife for this and other books and I'm pissed about it. Fuck you dude.
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Surprised by how much I liked this, although "liked" doesn't seem like the proper word for a book where I disliked every character. Well, I liked Gatsby I suppose. The idiot tried so hard.
As I said in one of my status updates, this book really shows how out of touch the elite are, which I think is something that is always relevant, but is particularly relevant as we roll into 2017. The racism and misogyny were prevalent and as much as I dislike them, I know I'll get hounded because "THAT WAS THE TIME PERIOD!" I know that. Doesn't mean I have to like it. If anything it just makes me dislike the characters even more than I already did to begin with. I favorited several passages on here, and I feel like if I'd been reading my paperback they would've been highlighted; I'm sure it'll happen on a reread eventually. Not sure what's up with that lately, because usually I don't highlight in my books. But this feels like one that deserves it. The opening and closing lines in particular stick in my mind.
I was also expecting this book to take me longer to read, similar to Lord of the Flies, but the audio carried me through really well. Huzzah for short books!
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Surprised by how much I liked this, although "liked" doesn't seem like the proper word for a book where I disliked every character. Well, I liked Gatsby I suppose. The idiot tried so hard.
As I said in one of my status updates, this book really shows how out of touch the elite are, which I think is something that is always relevant, but is particularly relevant as we roll into 2017. The racism and misogyny were prevalent and as much as I dislike them, I know I'll get hounded because "THAT WAS THE TIME PERIOD!" I know that. Doesn't mean I have to like it. If anything it just makes me dislike the characters even more than I already did to begin with. I favorited several passages on here, and I feel like if I'd been reading my paperback they would've been highlighted; I'm sure it'll happen on a reread eventually. Not sure what's up with that lately, because usually I don't highlight in my books. But this feels like one that deserves it. The opening and closing lines in particular stick in my mind.
I was also expecting this book to take me longer to read, similar to Lord of the Flies, but the audio carried me through really well. Huzzah for short books!
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Quotes Ashley Marie Liked
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,â€� he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“At first I was surprised and confused; then as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which everyone has some vague right at the end.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—�
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—�
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
Reading Progress
March 21, 2014
– Shelved as:
to-read
March 21, 2014
– Shelved
April 3, 2014
– Shelved as:
to-read
April 3, 2014
– Shelved as:
classics
April 27, 2015
– Shelved as:
i-own-it
January 27, 2017
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Started Reading
January 27, 2017
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0.0%
"Gonna try and get through this before I start Emperor's Blades next week."
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January 27, 2017
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22.0%
"So far the conclusion I'm drawing is just how out of touch the 1% are. Seems appropriate."
January 27, 2017
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56.0%
January 27, 2017
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67.0%
January 28, 2017
– Shelved as:
wtf-did-i-just-read
January 28, 2017
– Shelved as:
audiobook-would-recommend
January 28, 2017
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Finished Reading
