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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 6:48 pm    Post subject: The Great Gatsby Reply with quote
Anyone read it?

i just finished it. we had to read it for my english class.

it was good :]
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I read iit for my summer reading project. It was decent, but most of the time i got lost. I guess Im not sophisticated Sad
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I read it in English in High School..

It can be a difficult book to read..

I like it.. It was good.
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I read that one in high school. I didn't really like it.
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I liked it. but omg...Daisy pisses me off SOOOOOOOOOOO much Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I really, really didn't like that book. No idea why. Just, ick.
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
We were actually were suppose to read it but since the fires in california we didn't have time, instead we watched the movie and the teacher talked with us about it. How they differ and other important details
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Arabella wrote:
I liked it. but omg...Daisy pisses me off SOOOOOOOOOOO much Evil or Very Mad


Hhaa yea she was mean to Jay!

He was all alone at his funeral.

I loved Nick!

Hated Meyer Wolfsheim!
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PostPosted: March 19, 2008 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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even Tom was better than her in the end, and tahts saying something. at least he really cared for his mistress. but nooo...daisy just picks up and leaves...no goodbye...no i'm sorry...no oh i wont let you take the rap for that Mad


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PostPosted: March 20, 2008 5:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeah and wolfsheim's character was so sterotypical lol. I though gatsby was a homosexual for a short time while reading the book lol.
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PostPosted: March 20, 2008 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interficio wrote:
yeah and wolfsheim's character was so sterotypical lol. I though gatsby was a homosexual for a short time while reading the book lol.


no he was just so deeply in love with Daisy. No other girl intesested him.
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