Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Great Gatsby Published Today in 1925

4 comments:

Ed Gorman said...

And a number of major reviewers panned it. I still read it once a year. I don't know if it's perfect but I still can't find so much if a sentence that I'd change. And the next to final chapter where he talks about wealthy people...as angrily true today as Fitzgerald meant it be be back then.

pattinase (abbott) said...

I'd certainly choose it as the best American novel. My husband would probably choose Moby Dick. I dread the new movie.

Anne R. Allen said...

And the word count is so short it couldn't be published today. It would be a "novella" and everybody knows those don't sell :-)

This is one time when I'll be joyful about a new bad movie of a great book. I've written a novel about a man who imagines himself as Jay Gatsby (The Gatsby Game.) All that free publicity. Thanks Mr. DeCaprio!

Ed Gorman said...

I'm with you Patti. I dread the movie. Though I have to say Justin Beiber as Tom Buchanan was an interesting piece of casting. Who knew Tom Buchanan sang? But I take Anne's point about its brevity. They'd probably make it look like a NIcholas Sparks book. BTW I agree with you. I'd call it the finest American novel as well.