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Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:14:36 2011 No.1490428 [Reply] [Original]

Do any of Fitzgerald's other novels come close to The Great Gatsby?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:15:36 2011 No.1490430 Yes. This Side of Paradise was his first novel, and Gatsby-level in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:15:36 2011 No.1490432 I thought Tender is the Night was pretty close, though I admittedly prefer Gatsby. Haven't read This Side of Paradise or The Beautiful and Damned yet so can't comment on those.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:23:36 2011 No.1490454 IMO This Side of Paradise was crap. Way too many esoteric Ivey League references, fragmented story, boring stuff. Beautiful prose though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:23:36 2011 No.1490455 Gatsby>Paradise>>Beautiful&Damned>>>Tender is the Night

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:27:36 2011 No.1490468 >>1490454 >boring stuff. You just described Fitzgerald in a nutshell.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:27:36 2011 No.1490470 is the crack-up good it's unfinished, right? i just like the title

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:31:36 2011 No.1490484 I guess I'm a minority in thinking that The Great Gatsby was a terrible book with a mundane story.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:34:36 2011 No.1490493 File: 60 KB, 230x200, mirrored_sunglasses..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1490484

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:36:36 2011 No.1490500 >>1490470 It's not so much a book as a collection of essays and letters. Haven't read it, though, so I can't judge its quality.

>>	/Lit/'s Ambassador - Taiga !Y4SoHX4AQw Mon Jan 24 22:37:28 2011 No.1490509 File: 89 KB, 691x518, LiveTaiga3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1490484 No worries, I feel that the Great Gatsby was simply about pathetic rich white people having pathetic problems.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:39:36 2011 No.1490517 >>1490509 I feel that was kind of the point, that they and their problems were pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:40:36 2011 No.1490518 >>1490509 Getting shot in the face and run over by a car counts as a pathetic problem now?

>>	/Lit/'s Ambassador - Taiga !Y4SoHX4AQw Mon Jan 24 22:41:28 2011 No.1490525 File: 25 KB, 225x350, Smile3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1490518 Never would of happened if those rich white people weren't actin' so derp.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 24 22:43:36 2011 No.1490535 >>1490509 >implying everyone's problems aren't ultimately pathetic