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Lauren posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago @internrachel @julia1 I finished the Great Gatsby and wasn’t best impressed whilst I was reading it, but became kind of fond of it towards the end. I imagine most people here are American and had to read it in high school so I won’t bore you by talking about it.
Sorry, that first sentence makes little to no sense. What I meant to say was, I didn’t really like the book until it was almost over. I might enjoy it more if I read it again.
What did you think of Fitzgerald’s writing? What made you initially dislike it? I read it a few months ago and love to talk about it!
It was difficult to get into at first because I couldn’t really see what it was meant to be about other than the upper classes being ridiculous. Then when I was nearer to the end it seemed it was about Gatsby’s dreams and how he’d tried to make something of himself but failed in almost everything important. It made more sense to me at that point.