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The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
“He wanted something agreeable, something sweeter around the edges, but I was never very good at sweet.” This is one of those rare cases where I ended up preferring a retelling to the original. I’ve only read The Great Gatsby once and at the risk of incurring the wrath & contempt of Fitzgerald aficionados, I…
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — book review
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has its entertaining moments. The narrative seems intent on evoking a certain atmosphere. The people populating this novel meet up over drinks or dinner, where they divert themselves…
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