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3320692 No.3320692 [Reply] [Original]

What's so great about The Great Gatsby? Same with Catcher In The Rye

>> No.3320700

What's so great about spending all day attempting to troll an anonymous internet imageboard?

>> No.3320697

Is there any reason to reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower after you get out of high school?

>> No.3320720

That poster has got to be fake... the quote on it is so out of place! Looking at that I think it is about a time traveling millionaire!

Also, its a mediocre book.

>> No.3320808

not trying to troll just wanted to know what the life lesson is in these books

>> No.3320827

>>3320720
You know Jay-Z is doing the soundtrack right

>> No.3320830

>>3320692
Americans have always had it in them for big spending and luxurious living. That is why.

>>3320697
Perks of Being A wallflower was published by MTV during the 90's and is hardly to be considered a classic. It was a marketing success.

>> No.3320854

I didn't really get great gatsby. I dont think I ever understood what it was trying to say.

I had read another book set in a similar setting (THE METROPOLIS by Upton Sinclair) which I much preferred. Maybe it was more simplistic with it's message.

I enjoyed the catcher in the rye alot and have decided if I ever go mad and decide to shoot up an apple store or something I'll buy a copy to have in my pocket before hand.

The Perks of being a wallflower was just a complete crock of shite.

>> No.3320878

>>3320830

I wasn't implying it's classic. I'm just asking if there's any use in reading it after your adolescent stage. I bought it the other day just because the name sounded so familiar, but now I feel like I wasted my money.

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3320896

hey guys
James Franco is directing the movie version of "As i lay dying"

>> No.3320892

It's written with perfect english, its the grammar nazi bible. It's like the glorious crown of american english prose. And as good as it gets in language.

Thats essentially it.

>> No.3320900

>>3320896

Old news.

Still tragic. 'Howl' is the worst movie I've seen in my life.

>> No.3320925

If there is a message to Gatsby, it's that the American dream was increasingly becoming out of reach for so many at the time (as it is again now)

>> No.3320931

>>3320888
Beckett had the wizened sage look down to a tee

>> No.3320936

>>3320854
>I dont think I ever understood what it was trying to say.
New York society is shit

>> No.3320949

>>3320936
No, that's not it

>> No.3320954

>>3320949
Yes it is

>> No.3320958

>>3320925

But what about the modish negroes in the limousine?

>> No.3320969

>>3320900

god, howl was awful.

his Ginsberg voice was shit.

>> No.3320974

I read both in high school.

I don't remember a single thing about The Great Gatsby apart from some lady dying on a street and a car.

I can remember almost all of Catcher, it's been one of my favorite books since I first read it.

>> No.3321002

for me the great gatsby was all about emptiness. none of the characters in the book did anything for me. they're all going through the motions. even gatsbys great tragic love was somehow hollow. i wasn't impressed by the book.

the film looks interesting.

>> No.3321004

>>3320878
>Im sorry, but its for the best. Just return the book if you got the receipt.

>> No.3321012

>>3320958
They serve to speak only for Gatsby: "anything was possible, even Gatsby was possible." Playing in the dark, etc.

>> No.3321023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn0WZ8-0Z1Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player

>> No.3321036

>>3320692
>What's so GREAT about The GREAT Gatsby?
>do u even read?

>> No.3321050

I put The Great Gatsby on my "finished books" list without reading it.

I just pretend.

>> No.3321054

>>3320692
Because they're both about the immaturity, futility, and greed that forms the base of the American Dream. Teachers don't state this because the Republicans would then cut funding further, or if not in power, make lots and lots of noise.

>> No.3321053

>>3321002
0/10

>> No.3321057

>>3320896
Isn't he directing Blood Meridian too?

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>>3321053

>> No.3321221

>>3320936

incorrect.

that movie adaptation looks so horrendous I'm considering going to see it at the theatre for a laugh.

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>>3321057

>> No.3321315

>>3320925

>(as it is again now)

Which is entirely why the film might not be awful. It's not a period piece. They are getting like of Jay Z to make the music for a reason. After all isn't he a fantastic representation of the shallowness that wealth often sits in hand with.

>> No.3321318

>>3321315

hand in hand*

>> No.3321360

I personally prefer Tender is the Night.

>> No.3321581

"When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. We drew in deep breaths of it as we walked back from dinner through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour before we melted indistinguishably into it again."

As someone who lives in Wisconsin, this makes so much sense to me. If you don't like The Great Gatsby, then you should probably go ahead and eat shit.