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"Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!"

Great book or greatest book?

>> No.1047472

Most boring book I've ever read.

Though his prose is nice.

>> No.1047484

AND WHAT BOOK WOULD THAT BE??

EXCUSE ME FOR MY IGNORANCE. ¬_¬

>> No.1047498

>>1047484
The Great Gatsby. Don't waste your time...

>> No.1047502

Fucking awful.

>> No.1047507

American's love it while everyone else hates it.

>> No.1047511

Awesome book.

>> No.1047514

>>1047507
But I'm a Eurofag, and I love it...

>> No.1047518
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1047518

>>1047498
>>1047502
>>1047507

>> No.1047521
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>>1047507
Was that apostrophe necessary?

>> No.1047533

I just have troubling relating to people botching about being too rich or not rich enough for hours on end.

>> No.1047531

>>1047507
I guess that's why abebooks.co.uk listed as one of the 100 greatest books of all time.

>> No.1047541

>>1047533
Good thing that isn't what the book is about.

>> No.1047571

>>1047533
Is it because you're just another poor plebeian?

>> No.1047596

i like the part where the narrator walks outside for no apparent reason except to comment on the architecture of the houses in the area to the reader and then walks back in to resume his place in the story. breaking down the fourth wall and shit, yo.

>> No.1047619

I liked the bit when something happened.

oh wait

>> No.1047633

Eh. Sort of want again... not really.

>> No.1047655

it's a good book but vastly overrate

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>the great gatsby.jpg

my face when niggas gettin trolled hard

>> No.1047704

should have just read sparknotes.

>> No.1047721

Great book.

I would love to turn it into a good film.

>> No.1047732

I fapped to Daisy as if she were my cousin.