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Which: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nick Carraway is the first unreliable narrator that I can remember recognizing. Even before the eye-roller that is, “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
What made laugh this time around is… there’s really no one to root for (my chief complaint about and non-starter with Wuthering Heights [ugh]). They’re all careless and mostly unsympathetic, although Gatsby feels more hapless than malignant in his calculating.
But still there is the language. It is so concise even when it feels rambly, it’s worth putting up with Daisy’s stupidity.
I’m super-curious to see what Luhrman’s going to do with it; it can’t possibly be worse than the 1974 version, right? Don’t get me wrong: Redford in suits? Sure. But that movie is no good.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3cw5lVWD1qz6thlo1_500.jpg)
Progress: 3 down, 37 to go (list)
Which: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nick Carraway is the first unreliable narrator that I can remember recognizing. Even before the eye-roller that is, “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
What made laugh this time around is… there’s really no one to root for (my chief complaint about and non-starter with Wuthering Heights [ugh]). They’re all careless and mostly unsympathetic, although Gatsby feels more hapless than malignant in his calculating.
But still there is the language. It is so concise even when it feels rambly, it’s worth putting up with Daisy’s stupidity.
I’m super-curious to see what Luhrman’s going to do with it; it can’t possibly be worse than the 1974 version, right? Don’t get me wrong: Redford in suits? Sure. But that movie is no good.
Not until after I said I was looking for this edition did I realize I pass a fairly large used book store nearly every day. Go me. Of course, I’d already ordered this from Thriftbooks, but still: now I know! (Go Joe!)
(Not thrilled with the stickers Thirftbooks uses on their inventory: trying to remove it brings up some of the cover with it. Boo.)
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (F, 20s, sipping coffee, Cafe EnVie, NOLA) http://bit.ly/3Xzisl #vacationspy
For about a month, I’ve been on the hunt for the edition of Gatsby with that cover; I had it in high school and I’ve no idea where it got to. The one I got in college (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1995) is the one with the mid-century modern bits around the edge. Which is fine, but I want the other one back. (:
