The Great Gatsby in Nobody Reads In L.A.

Dec 17, 2006 Otis Chandler rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, fiction fiction

I read this classic twice in high school. Its hard to like books you read in high school, but this one stood out - couldn't tell you why anymore :) ...more

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Dec 12, 2006 Elizabeth rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, fiction

My favorite line from this book is, "Her voice was full of money." I think it reveals Fitzgerald's genius--what a telling phrase, and you know exactly what he means. ...more

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Feb 12, 2008 Denise rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, books-i-love-so-much-i-bought

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. First, this is the only time that I ever heard of a guy plotting so well to get what he wanted without everyone finding out his plan. Gatsby planned everything - the house, the location, the money, the parties, the friends, everything just so Daisy would just happen upon him. Why didn't he just pick up the phone and call her or send her a letter instead of planning for five years? Usually it's a girl who will go thru all that trouble so that no one discovers what she is really up to.

Anyway, I en ...more

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Apr 14, 2008 Bryce Wilson rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classic-lit

Since this book seems to be a weird flashpoint here at Goodreads I might as well reveal myself as a boring canonical worshipper of Dead White Males (Though as Angelica Huston pointed out in Art School Confidential "When they did their best work they where not yet dead) who thinks the final sentence may be the greatest last words in a book.

I also submit for evidence that no less authority then Robert Altman used a character's inability to appreciate Fitzgarald to mark them as a cretinous, soulle ...more

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