While I’m hoping to watch The Great Gatsby tonight, I’ll start with links to The Damnation of Theron Ware. I haven’t found too many, but the few I have are excellent. If you find any additional links that you think others will find helpful, please pass them along or post them in the comments and […]
Well, I gave suggestions a week so with no input I’ll go with what I’d like. And hopefully others will want to give it a try. The Damnation of Theron Ware, by Harold Frederic, was published in 1896 and became a bestseller. The book is also known as Illumination. Here’s a brief description from Alibris.com: […]
I wanted to have a thread on what other’s think about The Great Gatsby because I feel I’m probably in the minority. I enjoyed the language of the book—deceptively simple but rich all the same. But there was something that kept nagging at me, keeping me from fully enjoying it. I’ll try and condense my […]
This post is to cover the last three chapters of The Great Gatsby. I’ll start another thread by Friday to post your thoughts on the book as a whole. We arrive at the culmination of the book with infidelities uncovered and murders committed. The author ties it all together as his commentary on the state […]
Well, we’re quickly coming to the end of The Great Gatsby, so it’s a good time to talk about the next book. What would you like to read and discuss with a group? Browsing at a bookstore the other evening, I thought I would enjoy discovering an author I’ve never read before. Two I saw […]
An excellent article titled Professor, private investigator team up in search of the real ‘Great Gatsby’, which gives a look at the man purportedly behind Fitzgerald’s title character. Some detail is given on Max von Gerlach, who Zelda Fitzgerald said was the inspiration for Jay Gatsby. However this excerpt highlights the uncertainty of that claim: […]
In the middle third of the book, we hear Gatsby’s story of himself, meet Meyer Wolfshiem, find out some back-story on Jay and Daisy from Jordan, witness Jay and Daisy’s reunion, tour Gatsby’s house, find out more facts about Gatsby, and attend a disappointing party at his house. As Fitzgerald said in a different story, […]
A good article at the International Herald Tribune site (link is down) that ties in the history of Long Island and Fitzgerald. In “Gatsby,” Fitzgerald’s narrator and stand-in, Nick Carraway, says, “It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America.” But West Egg […]
What do you say about The Great Gatsby that hasn’t been said a thousand times already? Still, here I am posting on the book. I had never read the book, so I’m coming to it fresh instead of having a teacher tell me what I’m supposed to see in it. I’m interested to see if […]
Screen capture of the characters (left to right) Catherine Moreland, Eleanor Tilney, Henry Tilney I watched the BBC production of Northanger Abbey this weekend and, while enjoyable, I found it a little underwhelming. While some of the story line is faithful to the book, much is missing. The biggest loss is the lack of irony […]