The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (Epub)

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Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound. This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader.

“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life…”

No student of thought should be without this historic book. This 1925 edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price.

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⭐ The Kindle version of this book is different from the original text. Take the first sentence as an example:Original version: “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”Kindle version: “In my younger and extra prone years my father gave me a few recommendation that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever seeing that.”The grammar isn’t even correct. And as my wife says, the whole reason to read Fitzgerald is because of the way he writes. It feels like it was translated into a foreign language and then translated back to English. It is appalling.

⭐ I grew up hearing about The Great Gatsby but somehow never had to read it in any English course. I finally read it after college and am confused as to why it’s a classic. It’s an easy read, that’s about the only positive thing I can say about it. I once saw a tweet saying something along the lines of, “I have to assume that anyone who has a Great Gatsby themed party never finished the book.” It still makes me chuckle. It’s an awful and depressing story with no redeeming qualities. And don’t forget the drunk driving! Pfft.

⭐ The Great Gatsby is a recognized classic. Interestingly, the book did not sell very well during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, and when he died in 1940 he seemed to have regarded the book as a failure. When he died, scholars started to assess his work, and The Great Gatsby was recognized as an important work of literature. Besides its recognition, one must also think about its meaning for us in the present day. The “prohibition” period that he writes about was a strangely decadent period in America. Furthermore, the catastrophes of the Holocaust and WWII changed much about the U.S. and its position in the world. Since then, too, there has been substantial progress in civil rights, including the rights of women. In this sense, his novel seems parochial, and not very relevant for us today: Too much has changed about the world. Nevertheless, I think that if you approach the novel with an open mind and some knowledge of the historical context, you can see elements that remain of interest today. Fitzgerald was struggling with themes that are larger than his times, and still speak to us today. In this sense, I can recommend this book.

⭐ So I thought I should read some of the classics once in a while, to improve my mind, expand my knowledge, etc.So having now read ‘The Great Gatsby”, I don’t know how it got to be a classic.Bad writing, long run on pompous sentences, totally boring characters and very little plot don’t add up to a classic in my opinion.Mostly it’s plot, what little there is, involves some rich full of themselves people trying to score some booze and looking for a party during prohibition.What is somewhat interesting is the description of daily life in the U.S. in the 1920s. The technology, clothes, hairstyles, and attitudes. Otherwise I would say why bother, unless you want to cross a “classic” off your reading bucket list.

⭐ If the Great Gatsby had gone through just one more rewrite, it would be a flawless and poetic novel depicting New York during the early 1920s. Gatsby comes alive on the page through Fitzgerald’s masterful command of dialogue and character development. It’s hard not to see a young 30 somethin Robert Redford, as Gatsby, a man who through out the story is living a tragedy of unrequited love, creating a life of lavish wealth and parties, in hopes to win her heart.Although this book is one of the greatest works of literature, it seemed Fitzgerald rushed through it too quickly, hoping to get it out onto bookshelves. The story gets muddled by Fitzgeralds historical retellings of Gatsby’s past. His descriptions of Dan Cody, the yachtsman who started Gatsby’s climb to wealth, seemed too superfluous. Also the chapter start introducing the list of guests who attended Gatsby’s parties seemed way too lengthy and unneeded in the story. The ending where Gatsby’s father arrives to tell about his son’s childhood and his daily routine kind of ruined the ending for me.Next to other great works though, this is superb storytelling!Its sad how underappreciated Fitzgerald was during his lifetime! This guy was the Picasso of English Literature, yet he struggled all through his life just to make ends meet, unlike authors of lesser quality, like Hemingway who were dashing millionaires. Goes to show how underappreciated creative authors are next to art genius. But it’s way more difficult to write a novel like this, I think, than it is to paint a Picasso.

⭐ I purchased the kindle edition from this page and it is unreadable… I struggled through the first few paragraphs thinking that maybe Fitzgerald had a very strange writing style.. but it became evident quickly that this Kindle edition is a mess. I have never tried to “return” a kindle purchase before.. so lets see how that goes.

⭐ Throughout this novel, we are to consider color, rightfully so. In the very beginning we are confronted with a view of skin color as base as it is fearful. The color of skin, the color of grass, the color of automobiles. Perhaps silver: a color drained of ambition and purpose: the literal silver-spoon-borne-illness that welcomes the Daisy(s) and Toms of this world describes a lack of depth and consequence. They are twice removed, twice protected by the soft element 47, the color of the ruling class. Their pearls, mined from the blue-green ocean, abutting the emerald green forested continent, match silver skin bathed in silver threads. And friendships. One is silver and the other gold. The new friend becomes the most reliable narrator, the most crystal lens through which we are all to view and admire a colorful life. “The old sport,” takes careful measure of the colorless characters with which he shares these pages and finds that vibrancy died with the Gatsby. Gatsby’ obituary is certainly spectroscopic; the silver light splinters and all is color.

⭐ I believe the alchemy of time, place and the right talent and drive can create in an author the story and words to compose a portrait of truth and beauty that transcends time; a work of supreme art so rare and splendid that it is revered because our soul longs to be transported to the splendor of a moment in time and desires to be granted the providence to create something so divine that through it we may survive on this Earth forever.As rare and astounding as the art of Rembrandt, Renoir and Rodin, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short novel casts a spell on me in his painting Love, Truth, Mythology and Tragedy in words so poignant, eloquent and gorgeous that I, a mere mortal, cannot do them justice, so I must quote (though I typically prefer not to):“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”***“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”***“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”***“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—tomorrow 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.”***This is my favorite American novel.

⭐ Fine for reading.Disappointing quality for such a quality piece of literature. Looks self published cover art is printed in a really bad low resolution print with color bleeding — not above the quality of a home printer.

⭐ The kindle version of this is terrible. There are constant typos ok every page. Most typos are missing spaces between words which can be quite disruptive. Been trying to read this for 2 weeks to no avail. I want my money back.

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