Does anyone else find "The Great Gatsby" to be boring like I do?

[sasquatch]

Ooh, lets watch a rich white criminal, that rich white people like to party with, try to pick up a rich white girl that's married.
:eyes:
The good news is he dies at the end.
:)

[fishnfla]

1. well do you get it or not?

its all about the futility of the american dream. I think

Word is HST based Fear and Loathing on this classic. He used to type out the pages word for word to copy the style

[sasquatch]

2. It's about the non existence of the American dream

It's still as boring as all get out in my opinion.

[NightTrain]

3. Yes.

Next question!

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. No...

I think it's quite possibly the Great American Novel™ (or at least a candidate for that title).

It's basically about the emptiness of the so-called "American Dream"...Gatsby is a nobody who comes from nothing, and remakes himself into a rich playboy through a supreme act of will, driven by love for a shallow bitch who turns out not to be worth it. It's a tale of tragic futility, and the ultimate meaninglessness of a life lived for materialism.

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. I concur...

I feel the need to read Gatsby once every year. I'll usually knock it out in about a day and a half. Great book

[AverageJoe]

5. One of the great American novels

"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."


Now that's writing....

[Placebo]

6. I'd rather drill little Eichmanns through my skull...

then read that book. Thank Jesus™ for sparknotes in high school or I'd have never found out the end! :smoke:

[Zomby Woof]

8. I remember reading it in 11th grade

My friends and I would call each other "Old Sport" for weeks.

As for the Great American Novel, that will always be Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", followed closely by Robert Penn Warren's "All The King's Men".

[AverageJoe]

9. Good choices, but there are other strong candidates

and I think "Gatsby" is among them. How about "To Kill a Mockingbird"? "On the Road" is a contender, as is "The Sun Also Rises," though it loses points for being set in Paris. Bummer.





On edit: Fixed typo

[Davis_X_Machina]

10. You can't say....

...."Book X is boring".

All you can say -- accurately -- is "I was bored when I read Book X."

It's not a property inherent in the book, it's a property inherent in the individual reader.