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?

[Joanne]

I've never read it, but my friend had to read it for her English class in grade 12. She told me pretty much everyone hated it, except for herself - she absolutely loved it.

[chayze13]

It was terrible, just odd writing style.

[Joanne]

Well, it was written in the 1920s... I did read F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", however, and LOVED it. Maybe I'll like The Great Gatsby too.

[chayze13]

Good Point :)
How ever the ending, or one part of it made it worth it.

[angelrevelation]

I thought it was just okay at the beginning, but as you start analyzing all the complexities, it actually gets really good! And I think Fitzgerald's descriptions are beautiful. They're dreamlike but stuck in the real world at the same time.

[luvnhate]

It wasn't too bad. i honestly liked it better than the other books we had to read, like the scarlet letter. Now that book was like written in hard core old english.
I Just kind of hated the ending of the great gatsby. It wasn't 'satisfying'.

[berrypop90]

I loved reading it for lit. It was one of my favorite books. The book I hated in American Lit was Tom Sawyer.

[karmakiller]

To me, it's one of those books that if you read it on your own and just read it cover to cover you probably won't enjoy it. If you read it and think about it and discuss it with other people, then you'll probably enjoy it more.

[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.

[AyeVickaye]

Uggghs i had to read that book jr. year and watch the movie, basically about the "new money" & "old money". The Most dullest book ever was "The Crucible" and watch the movie . The weirdst Book I have to read for English 12 is "1985" George Orwell. you needa have a dictorary with you to understand that book...

[Reidar]

1984

And that's one of the greatest novels ever written. I still remember this sentence word for word: "He smashed his fist into Julia's solar plexus, doubling her up like a pocket ruler."

[only-tuesdays]

This book was fantastic! We read it senior year, it was amazing. I loved the descriptions, and symbolisms, for once it was an easy book to analyze.

[ForgiveTheSinner]

I liked the book but then the people in my class are on the slow side and it just ruined it for me when we it took like a week to read a chapter and discuss it.

[schizo]

I read it for a book report last year and loved it. It started out a little slow for me, but by the halfway point, I was hooked.