Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Great Gatsby Published Today in 1925

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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.

9:12 PM
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.

9:27 PM
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!

10:06 PM
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.

10:22 PM

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