The Great Gatsby. ., Check it :) Options

[chayze13]

I had to read this in my American Lit class, and hate it.

Any one else like/hate?

[Reidar]

I hated this book so hard. I remember once when we were reading it in class and I just wanted to punch it with every fist on my body. Right before this, we were assigned The Old Man and the Sea, which had a badass old man stabbing sharks with sawed-off boat paddles and arm-wrestling some huge guy for three days straight until blood was pouring out of their fingernails. What did this book have? The only good part was when somebody got run over by a car.

And no, the whole moral of contrived pursuits and pettiness wasn't lost on me. All that amounts to in the end is that society is filled with shallow tools, which I can deduce merely from walking outside.

As for his writing style, I personally think that Remarque does a more engrossing job on descriptive settings.