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    The Great Gatsby
    The Great Gatsby
    The Great Gatsby
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    The Great Gatsby

    Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Narrated by William Hope

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    Elegant, enigmatic Jay Gatsby yearns for his old love, the beautiful Daisy. But she is married to the insensitive if hugely successful Tom Buchanan, who won’t let her go despite having a mistress himself. In their wealthy haven, these beguiling lives are brought together by the innocent and entranced narrator, Nick – until their decadent deceits spill into violence and tragedy. Part morality tale, part fairy tale, The Great Gatsby is the consummate novel of the Jazz Age. Its tenderness and poetry make it one of the great works of the 20th century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateAug 1, 2010
    ISBN9789629549992
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American ‘Jazz Age’ of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.

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    • 4/5
      I have been putting off writing about the book, as I am not sure I can articulate my feelings about it. In fact Im not sure what my feelings even are about it. I do know I enjoyed reading it and kept wanting to pick it up, and I was glad when a slightly exciting story line developed. The hoo-ha with the car accident finally brought out some interest in the characters for me.So, yes, they float about in their own little rich worlds. People have been critical of the novel for this reason alone, but that's life isnt it? Some people do have that luxury, and it doesnt make their feelings or experiences any less valid. It just limits who can relate to them. I liked reading about their petty worries and relationship dramas, it took me away from my life and into someone's completely different.And written in a very appealing way.The first time I read this book was half my life ago, so this was like the first time for me. And I think there'll be more readings in it yet.

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    • 1/5
      boring. i didn't get very far into the book. about fell asleep.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Eh. It was okay. Not sure that I would read this one again though; maybe in a few years when I can look at it through the eyes of a non-student rather than as a student forced to read it and talk about how "wonderfully moving" it was.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Love his prose and the narrator was pretty good. Classic.

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    • 4/5
      Interesting rags to riches to oblivion novel.

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    • 4/5
      I tried to read this when I was about 14, but didn't get more than a few pages in. I'm glad I picked it up again though - what a wonderful book! I wish I could write like that, it was so beautiful. Such a sad story though, it made me feel empty inside at the end. But that's a good thing, I love books that really get inside me. And yes, I was a total geek & read the study aid thing to go with it as I thought it would be interesting to look deeper into the story. It was, but it also ruined the book for me. I don't think I'll try to be so studious again.

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    • 5/5
      One of the great novels of all time!
    • 3/5
      I know that 3 stars is rather low. And I did enjoy this novel. The prose was lyrical and flowed and the world of the story was so well-defined. But I can't get over that this book is #2 on the Modern Library top 100. Number 2? I don't know. The #2 spot should be reserved for characters who at least garner sympathy, or respect. I guess I don't see what all the hype is about.
    • 5/5
      The best book I have ever listened to. This the best version i have ever heard. The portrayal of different characters, emotions was incredible!
    • 4/5
      I must have read this in high school, though I have no recollection of doing so. I knew the story line, but I suspect it was based on having watched the Robert Redford/Mia Farrow movie of the book, and then more recently with my teenage daughter, the Baz Luhrman "Gatsby". Reading it now was like washing dusty windows, everything becomes clearer. It's a beautifully written book, enjoyable and enigmatic, not so much because of Gatsby himself, but because of the narrator Nick, who looks beyond everyone's facades and finds at the center of this heartless, decadent, false world in which the story takes place one person who is as innocent in his intentions as Nick is. Why does Nick say that Gatsby was "better" than all the rest of them? Gatsby is a fake, a liar, a bootlegger -- and yet at the center of his entire being, and the impetus for all his lies and illegal shenanigans, is a love so exalted, that the girl who inspires it cannot possibly live up to it. Why couldn't Gatsby accept that Daisy did love Tom Buchanan, at least a little at one time? If he had accepted that, she would have left with him right then and there. But he couldn't fathom that her love was less constant than his and is sacrificed because of it. On some level, this novel reminds me of Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot'. It starts as a lark, but reaches a point where there is no turning back from the inevitable tragedy.
    • 3/5
      Scott Fitzgerald is not a literary writer. He's the king of what I call faux-literature: fill your bowl with plot, add a dash of panache, a cup of nostalgia, three whiffs of yearning, and a drop of insight, and ice it with some fruity prose. Bang, you're done.

      But people love him. And who am I to stop the people from having their fun? Like many young people, I adored Gatsby on first reading it during my 17th year. Its exquisite art deco finishing, its sublime sense of pathos, its richness without being threatening like all those disturbing Modernists... Of course, with each passing year, my appreciation of its values lessens, but my appreciation of that feeling remains strong. And perhaps that's the real secret of Gatsby? Like so many folk tales, we can never disassociate the book from the way it drew out our youthful sense of envy, of pain, of ambition, and ultimately of loss. This novel lives within me, and within so many, even though it no longer forms a conscious part of how I view the world. (And say what you will about him; few people have written a closing paragraph as perfect as what Fitzgerald does here.)

      A towering piece of 20th century American fiction, nevertheless.
    • 1/5
      I don't like reading about selfish people. I know that's the point and it's beautifully written but I want to like the people I'm reading about, at least one character. The characters and the story line make me nauseous. Blech....
    • 5/5
      The classic novel of the lost American Dream. I love reading this book. I feel like each page necessary and adds to the story. Set in the 1920's with prohibition and dancing creates the perfect setting. I love reading about Daisy, and how my opinion of her has changed since first reading the novel back in high school. BTW - I now find her shallow and a gold-digger. I love that the man trying to relive his past is shown to be a fool. My favorite sections of the book are the vivid scenes that make me feel like I'm there watching. The dress shirts in Gatsby's room - getting drunk in the hotel - the car wreck, etc.
    • 5/5
      Just as good as the first time I read it!

      And now I need to totally have a 20's party!!!!!!
    • 5/5
      This is the 1st time I've listened to this book, which I've read multiple times. The narration is superb.
    • 5/5
      Published in 1925. I never knew this book was so tragic. It was quite beautifully written, although I thought his language went a little over the top at times. The Gatsby is really a charlatan who made his money through various shadowy ventures. Everyone in love in this book is unhappy. They seem to throw themselves into a whirlwind of parties to try and forget that they're not really happy. Lots of neat little details and beautiful metaphors sometimes stretched too far. And quotable quotes. It was a good book, but it made me sad with its hopeless, unfulfilled longing.(less)
    • 3/5
      I feel like The Great Gatsby should be more of a play rather than a novel. Some of the emotions and dialogue could be confusing or a little bland, especially from the women characters (but even more so Daisy), I get that is their personality but while reading it it didn't seem like a character flaw, just odd writing. I enjoyed the plot surrounding Daisy, Tom, Gatsby and the Wilson's, what I liked even more was that it was told from a different persons point of view so you kind of felt the frustration Nick was going through while all of this was going on even though he wasn't a big part of it he was still around it and drawn in against his will. The book is fairly short but I felt it kind of moved slow and had parts that were just filler but it makes sense why they are in the story towards the end. Overall The Great Gatsby was a good read, I felt it is a bit overrated with how much hype it gets and would much rather of read it in a play format.
    • 5/5
      I think The Great Gatsby was one of the first classic novels I ever chose to read ( i.e. something I didn't have to read for high school English) and it's also one of the best classic novels I've read.

      I still, to this day, vividly remember reading quotations from the novel and falling in love with it completely. I think F. Scott altered the way that I read because he made me conscious that I was reading books for prose (among other things.) So not only did this book appeal to me as a reader, it also appealed to me as writer.

      "She had a smile like money."

      "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

      I read this over a weekend - I was doing a 40 famine and raising money for charity, but instead of not eating, I chose not to speak. I didn't text, I didn't call anyone, I didn't go on Facebook. So to occupy my time I borrowed some books out from the library - the first that I read was The Great Gatsby.

      So I had this very intimate experience with this book - one that I'm not sure I'd ever get back. But that doesn't matter. This man changed the way I read, and I'm very grateful for that.
    • 3/5
      This is a book I would have liked to have read in high school like so many other students did. (My classes never required it.) I feel as I would appreciate the book more as a reread now that I'm older than the narrator, Nick Carraway.

      The story seems to be a commentary on the affluent culture of New York in the 1920's that at times feels disturbingly familiar. It's also a interwoven collection of tragic romances; or, in the case of the narrator and title character, of one-sided infatuation.

      Some descriptions I didn't understand, some are well out of date, and others are unaccountably awkward. That's what brings my rating down. The reason I'm looking forward to rereading The Great Gatsby later is its depth, spattering of wonderfully crafted phrases, and the general...honesty of it.
    • 4/5
      And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

      What's one to do in the wake of this incandescence? I disagree with Nabokov. This is brilliant (though so is Tender Is The Night). Thinking quite a bit today about Pound and Bunny (Wilson). What about Wharton and the Master - Henry James? All this re-imagining, all this space to plot a counter movement, a line of transgression. Prisms of nature are revealed. The viewer's eye is stimulated by money and possibility. The senses blurred in a haze of exhaust fumes and gin. My thinking of this novel now has been colored by Sarah Churchwell's thesis in careless people, that can't be helped. Despite our failures, there's always sex and strange lights.
    • 5/5
      My English teacher at southern college recommend the class to read and do a term paper. I don't usually read books like this but this book was really good. I really liked it.
    • 3/5
      Mediocre at best. Does Gatsby ever have an original thought or idea in his head? Not likely! This has always been touted as a classic. One must ask, WHY?
    • 5/5
      “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the decrepit side of the American Dream, which truly erupted during the 1920s. With a darkness stirring inside Gatsby, a feeling of loneliness takes hold, and his longing for an old flame sparks into reality. Readers come to learn that life as a glamourous host is not all it’s cracked up to be; his heart, head, and identity is jumbled beyond recognition; the person he could have married is seemingly unattainable; the green light he is so set on is merely a feebly lit lantern. All in all, superficiality reigns supreme in the mansion Gatsby calls his “home”.The snazzy millionaire changed everything about himself, from his name to the uneducated dialect of his youth. While watching his story unfold, one uncovers the languished lifestyle of the rich and infamous. Looking for a taste of champagne with a dash of insanity? Pick up this book and join the party, old sport.
    • 5/5
      An American masterpiece!
    • 5/5
      Still one of my favorite books I’ve read in high school.
    • 2/5
      The beginning i fragmented and awkward, but it picks up speed in the middle.
      I immediately liked Owl Eyes. He ends up being one of the very few to attend Gatsby's funeral.
      I dislike Daisy and Tom. I feel sorry for Gatsby.
      his unethical business partner or the man that made him rich, told Nick Carroway, pg. 180 "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead." (Meyer Wolfsheim)
      I also didn't like the abstract descriptions given, almost out of context.
      Most of the characters behave as victims of their lives when they made the choices. (they didn't take responsibility.)
      It's an okay book. I don't understand why it's a classic. I don't feel it surpasses time. I didn't understand a lot of the "current lingo" of the book.
    • 3/5
      Did not like the reader, but otherwise book was okeish. Thought it will have more.
    • 5/5
      This was by far one of the best books I've ever read.
    • 4/5
      Summary: Great little book about a dreamer who doesn't give up.

      Things I liked:

      The writing is beautiful.
      The story is succinct and efficient.

      Things I thought could be improved:

      No idea. I enjoyed it from start to finish.

      Highlight:

      The first time Nick sees Gatsby almost made me cry it was so beautiful. I got chills.
    • 5/5
      No amount of money or objects will ever make you as happy as love will, and you can’t make someone love you by buying them.