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The Great Gatsby
RedLion:
Gatsby definitely isn't a favorite of mine, but shit? Ah, no. It's still a classic work of literature for the themes and issues it touches upon, and the style of writing was nothing less than revolutionary in its day.
The whole thing is a bit simplistic for me (Pynchon is my favorite author, so complexity in a book is something I like) but I can't deny its merits. I feel the same way about The Scarlet Letter. I don't exactly love it, but the story itself is wonderful and the narrative style works well for what the book is trying to accomplish.
MusicScribbles:
I have to agree with you on the Scarlet Letter, although I wish I didn't. The Scarlet Letter was an extremely tedious read for me, probably because I was balancing a few books I wanted to read at the time (I was working through the Dune series in eighth grade.), and this book would just not stop talking. Of course the story was wonderful, but Hawthorne's writing style, while what someone in the 1850's would have written, still annoyed me to no end.
I should give the book a second chance.
How about the Red Badge of Courage?
monkandmovies13:
I only lightly skimmed this thread, but I just finished reading The Great Gatsby for school, and holy fuck you guys, it's one of my favorites. I absolutely adored it in so many ways. Made me feel pretty hopeless and depressed, but I still thought it was wonderful.
And commenting on other posts here and there that I saw, I loved Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye, and Jane Eyre (one of my favorites, but I really didn't like it until about the 100th page).
What I really didn't like was Huckleberry Finn or Their Eyes Were Watching God. Dammit Janey pissed me off so much.
Ozymandias:
Agreed on Their Eyes Were Watching God, not on Huck Finn.
thehollow:
I think a lot of the classic books were ruined for me because I had a couple of teachers I hated, and their stupid bullshit discussions and assignments for the books kinda ruined them. I didn't really like the Scarlet Letter or Gatsby, but I rather liked Grapes of Wrath and to Kill a Mockingbird, so I guess I should reread the first two and see if they're any better. And I never had to read Catcher in the Rye, so I suppose I should give that a shot too.
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