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If an eBook costs money, like this one does, I expect it to have a searchable contents, so that I can easily skip to any chapter I wish. This is shoddy from Amazon. Don't sell it, or make it free, if it can't have that most simplest of things. Makes me wish I'd pirated it instead of wasting my money.
I read this book in high school. But I didn't fully enjoy or understand it. Now that I have reread it, it makes a whole lot mo sense. I would recommend reading this book, it is a classic.
Usually I give it 10 pages, if they can't get my attention by then they usually never can.Which I might add is the only thing I got out of this book. I have been asked many times. I didn't care about these people at all. What do I look for in a book. The answer is simple, the characters.If I don't care about the characters I won't care much about the book. A bunch of millionaires wallowing in their lives.Had it not been for all these reviews I wouldn't have bothered to read this book past page 10, and looking back I can't believe I finished it. Next time 10 pages and your out.
Quotes like this - "Can't repeat the past." he cried incredulously. I loved The Great Gatsby when I first read it in high school English class, and I still love it today. "Why of course you can." - are just classic.The Great Gatsby is a story abut Jay Gatsby's quest to track down the girl he loved in his youth, and his inability to come to grips with the path her life has taken in the interim. I reread it about once a year, and I never fail to be impressed by F. Scott Fitzgerald's use of language. It also follows narrator Nick Carroway, Gatsby's neighbor for a summer. But most of all it is a story about the American dream - about love, money and ambition - and a slice of life in the 1920s, full of wild parties and glamour and tradgedy.
The story in the book was mildly interesting. 1) People who read just to read a good story2) People who read for the beauty of the prose and the beauty of the way the story is told3) People who are a combination of bothI myself am #1. I suspect that there are three types of readers. That is why I gave the book three stars. I like to read an interesting story that keeps thrilled and entertained. I am trying to also become more like #2, but I haven't got there yet. It was easy to follow, but still only mildly interesting. I guess as I study literature more, I will come back and reread this book.
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