I read this once in school like a million years ago. Should I bother reading it again? Is it really that good?
>>25124457I don't think so.
Isn't it like 150 pages? You can read it in a day or two anon.
>>25124470Yeah but should I be giving the author my psychic energies? Reading isn't so much about length as it is portioning out your divine attention.
>>25124483no save that you need to use it on our posts
>>25124483It's based and red pilled. Gatsby is a Chad who bent reality in order to looksmax and get super rich to drive Bugattis, but his undoing was simping for a dumb bitch who married for betabucks.
The writing itself is beautiful, but some elements and plot come off amateurish. There's a couple moments where the transition from the made up story to an element lifted from the author's experience is too jarring, and I'm not quite sure where the whole Gatsby collecting jewels bit came from. Just comes off weird and out of place.
It’s only famous because it’s short enough for students with perma-adhd to get through it in six months.
>>25124457finished This Side of Paradise recently, his first novel. highly recommend, incredible book.
>>25124525Does it genuinely take them six months to finish a borderline novella?
i don't think it's especially good
I reread it after two decades and I found it just as beautiful. It's the perfect balance of entertainment, prose, and Americana. The perfect end-of-summer novel. >>25126157They don't read at all, and even if they somehow have functional literacy, they don't have the media literacy to understand that a book's depicting something isn't an endorsement of it.
>>25124457yes, the first chapter is fantastic. Probably the greatest chapter written in American literature along with Chapter 132 in Moby Dick. Unfortunately, this work is wasted on adolescent youth who cant even do puberty properly anymore, as is evident from this thread so far.
>>25128324I don’t think it’s comparable with Moby Dick but I don’t think it’s terrible either, Gatsby himself is a great character. It’s not bad I just think it’s overrated outside of /lit/ but underrated here. It’s kind of like… the Beatles I guess
