Why do people like this book so much? I just read it and I found it boring as fuck, personally

What did you like about it?

>Well I disagree with pretty much all of this

So you were reading before you watched television?

Technology doesn't influence how people consume media?

It's your hill to die on, but the idea that you put down a classic and started publicly saying "I don't see what the big fuss is!" doesn't really reflect poorly on everybody else. The fact that your criticism amounts to "the story was boring and dry" communicates a very poor understanding of how to critique literature but is a generally well accepted notion of how to criticize popular media (like movies). As a tip, there are plenty of stories that are boring and dry (like Camu's The Stranger"), but they are that way intentionally because they serve a greater purpose.

>when the local highschooler didn't read the book and tries to use trolling tactics to get others to reveal critical reading points to him to do his homework for him

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But muh classic

>but muh trolling to get you to do my work for meh!

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Not to mention that chasing after a dream is fine, but everything has consequences.

It's a fair critique of the opulence and class division of that time.

He was chasing a fairy tale. He sold his soul to make her like him and she didnt.

It's a slice of life from a particular era of american history.
Something you won't find in a history text.
The play A Streetcar Named Desire is also a slice of life from a particular part of american culture.

I would also recommend on the road by jack Kerouac. My favorite book of all time

Not enough explosions for you or something, you fuckin retard?

just do my homework for me, faggot

I didn't say it reflects poorly on everyone else. I'm just saying I don't see why people love this book so much. I'm guessing I'm missing the point, am I reading a great story or something that needs to be "critiqued"? Because if it's the latter, I find that to be a waste of my time.
What I got from it is that "money cannot change who you were or buy you true love". Other than that I didn't get much from it. I'm still not understanding how he was killed so easily. Wouldn't a guy like this be armed at all times?
But she already liked him before, it's not like this was some rich diva out of reach. It's just that he was gone and she couldn't wait anymore.

>on the road by jack Kerouac
thanks for the recommendation looks like a good read.

I don't know. Read it in highschool and it was terrible. Nothing interesting happens

That's bull. A lot of the shit Jules Verne wrote is still interesting. Great Gatsby is boring

Very boring.

Read Dostoyevsky if you want classics.

Yeah I guess, it was still a huge letdown for me though. I was expecting a masterpiece.
Whatever you say, go jack off to FB pics faggot

Youre right. Its pathetic how everything is related to Drumpf for these faggots.
R E N T F R E E

Not him, but I am, and i loved reading as a kid. My grandpa and mom both strongly emphasized the importance of doing so to me, from an early age. My grandpa was from Sand Mountain Alabama too, and he wasn't exactly a nerd. He was in many ways a stereotypical mountain man. It's just that his mother's family were always very fanatical about education, and even started some of the first schools in the area.

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>it was still a huge letdown for me though
I think that might be part of the charm.
I personally hated the book for years until I began to understand its purpose.
Now I see it for what it is.
Its a masterpiece in its genre which there is not that much competition in.
Haven't seen the movie yet but I look forward to it just to see the costumes, cars, buildings, and the luxury described in the book.

but it's a book for children, user

>am I reading a great story or something that needs to be "critiqued"? Because if it's the latter, I find that to be a waste of my time.

Then you do not know how to read literature and your education has done you a profound disservice. You're not supposed to read everything like you're reading a comic book. There are a lot of subtleties that exist in The Great Gatsby (the green light), as does all great literature.

Bro, if you're reading to be excited, go read Dean Kuntz. Literature isn't an action movie that's always supposed to leave you at the end of your seat.

It’s intensely interesting, trust me. It’s about jacks experience hitchhiking from Manhattan to Sam Francisco in the 50’s. The shit and stories and experiences of his along the way are fuckin wild

Great literature isn't necessarily fun reading, and entertaining reading isn't necessarily great literature. Same with great films. Citizen Kane is a beautifully made film, but its not very fun to watch because its quiet boring if you aren't interested in the technical aspects of filmmaking. There's no reason a great book or film can't be entertaining as well, it's just often not the case.

>I minored in English
>Had to read this around 2x for courses
>I think I also read it in HS once

OP is a faggot, but he's right on with this.

It's a book that has some very peculiar situations that are supposed to both reinforce and tarnish the stereotypes of upper crust society (well, Americans in general, but this story is more an observation of excess in hard times), which it achieves very well. The allegory is very strong and clear, yet it never outright drops it in your lap that the story is a critique and these characters are essentially pointless.

The pitfall is its a boring ass novel. Although the story is interesting, the poignant and exciting parts are few and far between. It's not long but its an absolute bore to read. I have no idea how I read this garbage after reading Vonnegut in HS...

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Yeah but there's a huge difference between great film and popular film.

Also Citizen Kane fucking sucked.

>am I reading a great story or something that needs to be "critiqued"? Because if it's the latter, I find that to be a waste of my time
jesus christ
you had me going for a while
9/10 bait

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You can watch a movie for the beautiful scenery, the expert photography, the acting, the animation, the story, or for what most people these days are after the action.
Books are similar in that they have different reasons that they can be considered good.

>Literature isn't an action movie that's always supposed to leave you at the end of your seat
Then it's a shitty book. Why do people like you enjoy reading boring shit? I will never understand this. You do realize it doesn't make you interesting or special right?

see:
History books are boring too why do they make them?

How the fuck is a history book the same as a boring story? Are you serious right now?

And also movies and video games that are made solely for the purpose of being pretty to look at are just as bad

>video games that are made solely for the purpose of being pretty
there are actually popular games that look great and have a message that have almost no action.
detroit become human isn't action filled.
It's adding art to a history book instead of just writing a boring ass list of chronological events.
It's literally art.
I'm not saying that it's good because obviously art is in the eye of the beholder so it is perfectly fine for you to not enjoy it.
But that is what it is.
It is historical art.

What the fuck? It’s well written American literature. I love Fitzgerald, what he represents nowadays, and all that literary nonsense. That shits cool if you aren’t a fucking idiot.

NAKED LADIES IN THE EYES

>thot

yes you’re missing being an american for one thing. try reading your country’s literature.

>there are actually popular games that look great and have a message that have almost no action
Video games are not suppose to have a message, whatever the fuck that even means. See this is what I'm talking about, people like you are why movies and games suck now. You see pretty CGI or muh graphics, and you accept it as great even when everything else is shit. That's why nobody bothers writing a good script or making video games fun, because they know fags like you will still go out and buy it anyway.

OP

I teach this book four times a school year to 11th graders. I totally understand why you find it boring, but many people find purpose in the characters, not the story.

Nick Carroway - He is a bland and blank canvas. He's actually one of the worst people in the novel if you consider how much stuff he lets people get away with. Tom's affair, Daisey's affair, even letting George Wilson keep thinking Tom was his friend.

Dailey - Although she seems kind and loving, she's also very intelligent and cunning. She sees Gatsby as an escape from her boring life and she uses him.

I could go on and on. Jordon is a horrible slap in the face to the concept of the "New Woman" in the 1920's.

Like I said, if you analyze the characters and read it again, the book is actually pretty fun. But I respect your opinion.

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*Daisy

You think that's boring, try reading The Last of the Mohicans. You'll want to bang your head against a table till you lose consciousness.

>Makes fun of southerners for not reading
>Can't understand High School level lit

the point was that gatsby was great, "worth more than the whole damn lot of them", or whatever the line was, because he was the only one who was decent, although he still had something pathetic about him

everyone else was basically low-life scum, but in nice clothes and nice houses

wealth means nothing if the people are shit, it was also a critique of 1920s decadence. fitzgerald himself was a very heavy drinker, though

also the scene of the all-seeing eyes on the billboard making daisy paralyzed in fear, like the sudden artifice of her entire life punched her in the mouth, and then the distraction made her run over and kill myrtle (i think that's what happened, it's been almost 10 years). nick was kind of a detached narrator, letting us see the debauchery like the all-seeing eye

>you accept it as great
you are nearly too triggered to convo with.
I like animation for how it looks.
If it has a good story than it will probably be a favorite of mine.
I don't really like the marvel movies because they don't really interest me nor have much of a message nor do I enjoy all the over hype within the movies.
I liked birdman.
That's my favorite super hero movie.
Journey is a great videogame that looks amazing.
No Man's Sky looks amazing but sucks so the replayablility isn't there but I played it just to see how it looked.
You can support art for the small parts about it that you liked.
You don't have to be "BAD" "THAT SUCKED ASS"
I think you may need to discover art some more as a study maybe.

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I'm actually impressed that we can take a break from "ladyboy" threads, and "nigger hate" threads, to discuss literature for 30 minutes.

I know it won't last, but it was nice seeing this thread.

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well you know what they say

"be the change you want to see in the world"

Yea Forums is actually not bad for a Yea Forums board in terms of intellectual discussion, it worsened in quality after the 2016 election, but, to be fair, everything on the internet did. some /his/ threads are surprisingly dense with real information, /sci/ is pretty good, too. i do agree that Yea Forums threads like this are rare, not sure what to attribute it to. russians, bots, sjws, jews, normies, etc.

politics got boring and philosophy is a pointless argument.

It's a good story because by reading it, we can come to terms and make discoveries about our selves, and what makes each of us individually tick.

Gatsby was in love with some rich thot. Tried to win her back. It didnt work, shit went south. He paid the price for being stuck in the past and placing the pussy on a pedastole.

I dated a hot thottie for 5 years. It ended badly. A few years later I had a beautiful wife, good job, and the hot thottie came back into my life, she was my first love. And I was stupid. I was like "This is meant to be! She was always the one! I never stopped loving her and she never stopped loving me!"

I lost my wife. My car. My house. Thousands of dollars in a divorce. Cuz I was trying to do what Gatsby did, resurrect something from the past that had already played out.

I had read the book in high school, and didnt like it. It was boring. Reading it as an adult, having dealt with love and relationships and failure, it was a different experience.

I wonder if a modern great gatsby-like would be considered as great as the original

It sucks. Movie is only good because it has Spiderman

Was forced to read it in HS and it was okay, nothing special. I like a lot of the stuff Yea Forums forces me to read though