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A review by toggle_fow
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.0
Reading Attempt 1, Age 9: Brain bluescreened within 2 chapters. Comprehended nothing.
Reading Attempt 2, Age 15: High school American Lit. Hated the GUTS of this book and everyone in it. Read it, but still struggled with some of the more abstruse imagery and language. Brain occasionally bouncing off and skidding by entire passages at a time.
Reading Attempt 3, Age 30: Not a difficult read, though it did still tempt me to zone out through some of the descriptions. There is still something deeply wrong with everyone in this book, though I'm much less angry about it than I was as a teenager. Ultimately, I was hoping that my grown age would reveal to me depths and value in this story that my younger self was unable to grasp, and unfortunately that did not happen. It's a gaping hole of a book - a book about nothingness.
Reading Attempt 2, Age 15: High school American Lit. Hated the GUTS of this book and everyone in it. Read it, but still struggled with some of the more abstruse imagery and language. Brain occasionally bouncing off and skidding by entire passages at a time.
Reading Attempt 3, Age 30: Not a difficult read, though it did still tempt me to zone out through some of the descriptions. There is still something deeply wrong with everyone in this book, though I'm much less angry about it than I was as a teenager. Ultimately, I was hoping that my grown age would reveal to me depths and value in this story that my younger self was unable to grasp, and unfortunately that did not happen. It's a gaping hole of a book - a book about nothingness.