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whitewanderer75 t1_ixy0j52 wrote

I read the book at 15 for high school and just last month, decades later. I found and still find it a great but also sad book, especially because of the similarity with the writer's life. Read the Sun also Rises soon after, but that I found boring. Yes I understand... emptiness after WW1...Never understood why that is one of America's classics

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GaryTheCommander t1_iy22the wrote

I'm more of a Sun Also Rises fan than Gatsby. Very beautifully written, nihilistic, and real

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whitewanderer75 t1_iy276sc wrote

I see. I just got noted about reading about the endless drinking sessions and actually very little happening.

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