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woundedbearhair t1_ixwc8f8 wrote

Reply to comment by Secty in I don't like The Great Gatsby by francisf0reverr

My literature class in high school protested against reading this book because it was boring and we just didn’t connect to it. We watched the movie that was made with Redford instead since this was 20 years before the DiCaprio version. It’s really only as popular as it is because every GI in WW2 was given a copy to read and it’s been jammed down everyone’s throat.

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Cooper-Willis t1_ixwd1s1 wrote

Or maybe . . . Because it’s actually a really well written book?

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woundedbearhair t1_ixwfghq wrote

Uh maybe…just maybe that’s why it’s is a widely known book.

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