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Title: The Great Gatsby/Cassettes by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexander Scourby ISBN: 0-945353-41-3 Publisher: Audio Partners Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (814 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful Language and a Great Story
Comment: This eloquently written novel, full of symbolism and wonderful imagery is set among a millionaire community on Long Island. The enigmatic bachelor Gatsby gives huge all night parties at his mansion, dancing, drugs and sex are the season's most fashionable events. His fascinated neighbour, the book's narrator Nick Carraway, makes friends with him and begins unravelling the secrets of his personality. Carraway's intervention triggers revelations about Gatsby's criminal past, and a love afair between Gatsby and the wife of the wealthy Tom Buchanan; these in turn leads to further tragedy. At the end of the book Carraway sits alone outside Gatsby's mansion, reflecting on the emptiness of the lives he has just described. Certainly this novel stands alone in range and depth. You will want to read this book again just for the beautiful flow of Fitzgerald's prose.
Rating: 5
Summary: A haunting vision of the American dream
Comment: Fiztgerald captures the lost American dream in a haunting and also starkly realistic jazz age tale. One can almost see Gatsby as a Prince and Daisy as a sort of Princess, but they are't and nothing is quite right. Everything is just enough off; people's morals, the times, social circles, values, to allow Nick ample room to view and judge the group from a slight distance. Some will tell you to read this book because it stands for the wild jazz age parties of dancing in fountains while drunk in the 1920s. It goes much deeper, into the realm of something more adult and timeless; regret, hope, and the torch of unrequited or poorly timed love. Gatsby is no hero and Daisy is not a pure heroine, neither is Nick noble and wise. These are modern characters almost accidentaly imbedded in ancient fairy tales who seem to effortlessly trapse in and out of the fairy world and the real withtout realizing any difference. The narrator Nick is the only one who lets on a sense that the experience is odd.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone over the age of ten. If you haven't read it since your high school or college reading project, pull it out and read it again for fun and really savor it this time. You will be pleasantly surprised at the simplicity and beauty Fitzgerald wields seemingly so effortlessly, like Mozart. The BBC recently did a movie on it with Mira Sorvino which was ok, but the book is still better. The differene that pops up for those of us on the west boast that also seemse to resonate with Nick is the differene between East coast money and the rest of the country. Take a look at that in comparison to the new money of the northwest in computers and so on and how it is treated in comparison with old money. Class structures still remain, and much of the transitional nature Fitzgerald writes about stands today because of economics, the expendable dollar of the youth culture and more. It is a great book, give it a read.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Definition of Great
Comment: F. Scott Fitzgerald accomplished exactly what he set out to do with this novel. He wrote a simple and beautiful tale about sustaining the American dream.
Fitzgerald offers us Jay Gatsby the overly confident, charismatic portrait of excess who falls in love with something beyond his reach, Daisy Buchanan. It is a classic love gone wrong story that embodies itself on the theory that we always want what we cannot have. Once money is added to the calculation the pursuit becomes all the more desperate.
This novel is a must read if only for its classic status. It is an easy summer day exploration into the mind of greed, lust and all that it leads to. Fitzgerald managed to write something simple minded with great prose and compassion. But while uncomplicated it is also written with terrific insight questioning the concept of greatness at its very core.
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Title: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ISBN: 0316769487 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Scarlet Letter by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ISBN: 0553210092 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1965 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0142000663 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Cliffs Notes) by Cliffs Notes, Kate Maurer ISBN: 0764586017 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 05 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140177396 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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