To: Hemingway's Ghost
Sounds of choking/dying/barfing.
I think Gatsby is very much highly overrated, myself. It tells the sordid soap-operaish story about the rich and pampered in a rather weird time of American history.
You might as well have picked Babbit.
104 posted on
02/17/2006 12:35:51 PM PST by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Knitting A Conundrum
Lewis doesn't have anywhere near the lyricism of TGG.
107 posted on
02/17/2006 12:37:34 PM PST by
Borges
To: Knitting A Conundrum
I think Gatsby is very much highly overrated, myself. It tells the sordid soap-operaish story about the rich and pampered in a rather weird time of American history. That's only because it's 2006, and because of imitation and proliferation, the story and style has become trite and hackneyed by now.
To: Knitting A Conundrum
For an absolute howler, rad Nancy Mitford's
The Pursuit of Love The actions of Uncle Matthew at Alconleigh, his total lack of political correctness was hysterical.
147 posted on
02/17/2006 2:04:09 PM PST by
mware
(The keeper of the I's once again.)
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