So I read Great Gatsby for the first time. Honestly, not that great. It was finally getting interesting on page 116. But then, Gatsby doesn't make an appearance until page 50-something.
The book wouldn't get published today. A remote character watching the events tells the story, if the mystery of Gatsby is so great, I'm missing it (possibly because I heard so much about it before reading it) and there is waaaaayyy too much that has nothing to do with the plot going on.
I will give it one thing: The descriptions, language, the way things are phrased, magnificent.
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