12-15-2009, 02:28 PM
(12-15-2009, 02:00 PM)Vipershark Wrote: gatsby was boring as hell
It took me three hours to get past the FIRST PAGE without falling asleep, and everybody died at the end anyway. Not to mention the useless expansion of EVERY SINGLE DETAIL, meaning a simple explanation of his surroundings could have taken up to two or three pages.
It was almost as anticlimactic as 1984.
Bahaha, I'd wager that he's small time compared to James Joyce.
Uni students quake in fear at the mention of Ulysses, and even his short stories are pretty goddamn hefty.