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The Great Gatsby: Original Text

Name: The Great Gatsby: Original Text
Rating: 5 (29 reviews)
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780743273565

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 180 pages

A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth, which results in tragedy.

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Ryan Holiday
“Re-Read The Masters You were in high school when you read The Great Gatsby for the first time. You were just a kid when you read The Count of Monte Cristo or had someone tell you the story of Odysseus. The point is: You got it right? You read them. You’re done, right? Nope. We cannot be content to simply pick up a book once and judge it by that experience. It’s why we have to read and re-read.”↗
Andrej Karpathy
“The author does a good job of verbally sugar-coating an otherwise boring story about an obsessed bootlegger and his unstable acquaintances. A book perfectly suited to teach helpless K-12 children to value prose over content and that unfaithfulness and obsession lead to despair and death.”
Bill Gates
“Melinda and I really like [this book]. When we were first dating, she had a green light that she would turn on when her office was empty and it made sense for me to come over.”↗
Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
“Remember in high school, when you had to read "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott SparkNotes? The character Jay Gatsby doesn't even like opulent mansion parties, but he throws them anyway just to show his crush, Daisy, that he's made it, that he's a success, that he's worth something. And as we all remember, in the end, they get married and defeat the monster Grendel to save the hall of Hrothgar. At least, that's what I wrote in my 10th grade English essay about how the theme of "The Great Gatsby" is money always leads to happiness. I got a D minus!”
Taylor Swift
“The writing I love the most places you into that story, that room, that rain soaked kiss. You can smell the air, hear the sounds, and feel your heart race as the character’s does. It’s something F. Scott Fitzgerald did so well, to describe a scene so gorgeously interwoven with rich emotional revelations, that you yourself have escaped from your own life for a moment.”↗
Bryan Johnson
“"Some options: The Dream Machine, Waldrop The Beginning of Infinity, Deutsch Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Munger The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald"”↗
Tom Hiddleston
“".@aleebev I loved it. I remember walking around Paris in June 2010 listening to Frank Muller reading The Great Gatsby (Unabridged). Perfect."”↗
Ta-Nehisi Coates
“I’m a sucker for efficiency. This book gets so much out of what is, ultimately, a rather slim story. I adore it.”↗
Elif Shafak
“You can adore this book for multiple reasons. The story, the style, the craft… There are no heroes here, just human beings, with all their flaws and failures. Although it is a book about a certain place and a time, and the dark side of the American Dream, it equally feels timeless and placeless, such is its universal appeal. The Great Gatsby is not a story you can read once and put aside, it is a book that deserves to be reread at different stages of life—a companion rather than a classic.”↗
Sarah Churchwell
“@robinince @Janeannie Thank you, and doesn’t it just. - I can definitely recommend re-re-re-re-re-reading etc. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read it and I still find new phrases. Astonishing that such a short book can contain such multitudes.”↗
Richard E. Grant
“An unrequited love letter to the Jazz Age that manages to be both intimate, epic and achingly romantic about an era that almost never was.”↗
Hunter S. Thompson
“Recommend to Angus Cameron, Knopf editor: “If history professors in this country had any sense they would tout the book as a capsule cram course in the American Dream. I think it is the most American novel ever written. I remember coming across it in a bookstore in Rio de Janeiro; the title in Portuguese was O Grande Gatsby, and it was a fantastic thing to read it in that weird language and know that futility of the translation. If Fitzgerald had been a Brazilian he’d have had that country dancing to words instead of music.””↗
Jackie Collins
“Jay Gatsby—the definitive hero. Mysterious, rich, sly, handsome, cool. This is a book I try to reread quite often. It’s beautifully written, and the characters of Jay and Daisy stay with you.”↗
Lupita Nyong'o
“The book I have read the most times. I love the decadent melancholy of it. I also love the delicate relationship between Gatsby and his unrequited love, Daisy. My favorite sentence from the book is when Daisy says, ‘What will we do with ourselves this afternoon and the day after that, and the next thirty years?’ Now that is restlessness and privilege if I ever heard it!”↗
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