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[dcro 10,210]

Random question. Has anyone here read The Great Gatsby?

[heywoodu 15,135]

Well-stocked for a period without sports. Finished Stephen King's The Long Walk, now reading his Carrie and then I've still got dozens and dozens and dozens of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Jeffery Deaver and some others to go which I happened to stumble upon online  

[hckošice 14,823]

9 minutes ago, dcro said:

Random question. Has anyone here read The Great Gatsby?

 

no but I saw the movie if it help you 

[Bohemia 1,411]

30 minutes ago, dcro said:

Random question. Has anyone here read The Great Gatsby?

 

I had to in college

[heywoodu 15,135]

I didn't see the movie and didn't read the book (luckily we didn't really have any forced literature in school ), but I did see the Family Guy episode about it  

[dcro 10,210]

46 minutes ago, Bohemia said:

 

I had to in college

 

Is it worth reading?

[Bohemia 1,411]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

Is it worth reading?

 

I don't know if I'm the right person to ask  when school forces me to read something I usually don't like it because I don't like to be forced. It wasn't the worst read though, it's a classic so it's a must read I guess!

[heywoodu 15,135]

5 minutes ago, Bohemia said:

 

I don't know if I'm the right person to ask  when school forces me to read something I usually don't like it because I don't like to be forced. It wasn't the worst read though, it's a classic so it's a must read I guess!

 

Something being a classic doesn't mean everyone would think it's good though  Most of these classics sound rather boring to me and I doubt I'll really go and read them  

 

@dcro Please do read it and report back  

[hckošice 14,823]

Man, this thread is really not for me I hate reading, literally hate it.  But I blame our school system for that, they forced us to read some really totally nonsensical and boring books. some of them were good medicine when I could not sleeping though...

 

I guess the last book I read was the 10 little niggers aka 10 little indians aka and then there were none from A. Christie, this was some nice couple of years ago

 

but in other hand I have a very interesting collection of our NOC official Olympics books (All from Seoul 1988 to PyeongChang 2018) + I added to my collection the Grenoble+Mexico City 1968 one and Oslo+Melbourne 1956 book as well, I found in our local antiquarian, and my uncle few years ago gave me the Tokyo 1964 book

[Bohemia 1,411]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

 

Something being a classic doesn't mean everyone would think it's good though  Most of these classics sound rather boring to me and I doubt I'll really go and read them  

 

@dcro Please do read it and report back  

 

That's exactly what I think too, since I never liked the books we had to read for school

One of my least favorite was probably "The Plague" by Albert Camus, which is not the kind of thing you want to read right now.