The Great Gatsby

“In the end of the book, which I read and liked, you mention that your 97-year-old grandmother said that she was sticking around so she could see your book.”

“In the book, you talk about how Americans seem to think we're in a Disney movie, with a lot of black and white and binary thinking.”

“Yeah to Manhattan, but what I like about the book, I'll help you plug it, here is that it skewers both the liberal left social justice side of things and the conservative ideology.”

“I read it for the first time in a high school English class, which I think is true of a lot of people. I don't know if you did. Certainly did.”

“There there were for some reason it was one of the books that was published by US in a US armed forces paperback edition that was given to American soldiers as they went off into combat.”

“And a surefire way to turn someone off to a great book is to say, This is a great book. This is the greatest American novel. This is because then it then you just it becomes a kind of a burden. But I think it it's just I think it's one of those books that like just start reading it”

“if you read say the rate gatsby you read the paragraph sit back or read the poem and ask yourself if i were to write this”

“Gatsby's obviously a great example of this. On on one level, it's a perfect snapshot of the Jazz Age. And then you realize on a different level it's about the American dream, it's about ambition...”

“in in Gatsby, there's this moment where Gatsby comes to Nick when he's trying to get in his good graces and he says like, "Hey, like I have maybe like I know you don't make a ton of money doing what you do. I have maybe this business opportunity you could help me with."”

“Well, I'll take you through the bookstore later, but the reason for that is I wrote actually a book about this, but the reason for that is because The Great Gatsby's is doing pretty well.”

“It's like it's very Great Gatsby.”

“that's an interesting point you made one one of my favorite uh passages in The Great Gatsby he goes and he meets uh mayor wolfsheim”

“You made one one of my favorite uh passages in The Great Gatsby he goes and he meets uh mayor wolfsheim the the the the organized uh criminal the gangster and uh Gatsby sort of Whispers to to Nick Carraway that this was the man that had fixed the 1919 World Series”

“One of my favorite passages in The Great Gatsby is where Gatsby meets Meyer Wolfsheim, the organized criminal, and Gatsby sort of whispers to Nick Carraway that this was the man who fixed the 1919 World Series.”

“And so I feel like we also have this kind of one-fits-all, like everyone should read Great Gatsby in high school.”

“I feel like we also have this kind of one-size-fits-all approach: everyone should read The Great Gatsby in high school.”

“Um and he had The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels, may maybe my favorite, but he says, "Remember little Pammy in The Great Gatsby, neither did her mother neither did her mother Daisy Buchanan. You are a much better literary mom." First off, that's such an incredible compliment uh to you and to me it seems like”

“So, I read the book, I watched the DiCaprio Gatsby movie, I then watched the Robert Redford Gatsby movie, and then I went to the play.”

“Yeah, I went down a big Gatsby rabbit hole and it struck me how much more Nick Carowway's characters developed in the book cuz he's the writer, but then there's a lot of parts about Gatsby that really come through in the DiCaprio Gatsby movie because they really made that visual and there's just this grander of Gatsby's house and”

“Like I think of The Great Gatsby with the book The Great Gatsby.”

“You know Hunter S. Thompson rewrote the Great Gatsby just so he could feel what it was like to Write a great novel.”

“You know, Hunter S. Thompson rewrote The Great Gatsby just so he could feel what it was like to write a great novel.”

“The book was The Great Gatsby uh by Fitzgerald, which I have read possibly more than any other book.”

“It's April, and this month marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel about America, the Roaring 20s, New York City, wealth, class, love, tragedy, and one very powerful green light.”

“You recall Nick Carowway, our narrator, who moves next door to the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby on Long Island.”

“We are in April 2025, which marks the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby. that there definitely are echoes of that book in here.”

“It's the same with writing; if you read a book that you really love, the next day you turn your computer on and you'll be writing in a slight variation of that style. Didn't he write The Great Gatsby over and over again just to get a sense of the rhythm of the words while learning how to write?”

“I'm sure I've read that about Hunter Thompson; I believe he definitely typed out The Great Gatsby and Farewell to Arms word for word as a method for learning how to write like the masters.”

“the more recent version of The Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio when they drove those cars”

“did you ever read The Great Gatsby I I watched the movie I was supposed to read the book as a student the DiCaprio movie is actually pretty [ __ ] good”

“And yet some other people say, 'Hey, this might have even inspired The Great Gatsby in some ways.'”

“We all know that you read that that article as well as I did and people people wonder if this was you know one of the stories that inspired The Great Gatsby. It was in 1922. I think Gatsby came out in 25 so before the actual trial”

“and also one other thing about him is that it's a pretty much a certainty that Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby was based on George Remus because he had met um F Scott Fitzgerald at some point”

“Scott Fitzgerald ended up basing a lot of The Great Gatsby parties after what happened in the Social Circle at the Algonquin”

“And I was going to go see the Gatsby musical this week. So, I watched both the Gatsby movies, the Robert Redford one, the DiCaprio one.”

“I think on the The Great Gatsby, I think it's public domain now. So, someone just did it you know did a cheat.”

“it's from The Great Gatsby all right okay you remember it's a big party there's a lot of like you know sex drugs and rock'n'roll yeah okay Rowan 21 20s right oh yeah here it goes in his blue Gardens men and girls came and went like moths amid the champagne the whispers and the stars that's a great line”

“"In his blue gardens men and girls "came and went like moths "amid the whispers, the champagne and the stars."”

“and one of those books is The Great Gatsby”

“this book is about a young man named Nick who moves East and he's going to work in in finance and he he takes a little house in Long Island next to this big grotesque mansion that is owned by very Mysterious Mr Gatsby Jay Gatsby”

“He really did read The Great Gatsby. Pinkerton recalls fondly.”

“I've become one of those old men who's angry at the kids for not having read the same things I read when I was in high school becoming I'm sorry like The Great Gatsby”

“what is your favorite Blog podcast or book of all time my favorite book of all time is The Great Gatsby”

“my favorite book of all time is The Great Gatsby”

“the epigraph of the book and of course the title is taken from F Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby”

“you know how everyone is supposed to read this book did you Matt I think you would really like it to be honest”

“In Fitzgerald's novel, Jay Gatsby began life as James Gats, a poor farm boy desperate to escape his origins. He tried to reinvent himself into a dazzling millionaire. But no matter how hard he works at it, the people around him reduce him back to the upstart outsider.”

“and there's a a moment in that book where the protagonist is taking a train up the Hudson River Valley and he's looking at the Hudson and casting his mind back to before it was settled... very much uh kind of an illusion I think to to that paragraph”

“It's like it's very Great Gatsby. It's like it has nothing to do with the book itself.”

“I just did a a podcast about you know my favorite ­ book and it was the Great Gatsby.”

“Um um Hunter S. Thompson like he rewrote The Great Gatsby just just to know what it felt like to write a good book.”

“They did it with Great Gatsby too every you know article Rewritten or whatever it will be written there was a double Plus on good there was a a professor who was who was teaching Great Gatsby and he said my my students don't understand this book they don't get it which by the way it's it's which is another”

“well so I was in 10th grade in when I was 15 um I read The Great Gatsby um that year um and then the following year I was introduced to Hardy who has become so important to me as well”

“Like a lot of teenagers are living through trauma a lot unfortunately.”

“the other book that I finally got to uh was The Great Gatsby which is obviously very late in life to be reading it”

“did you like Great Gatsby I didn't see it you didn't see it”

“the epigraph of my book is this line from The Great Gatsby that that goes reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope”

“Hunter S. Thompson rewrote every single word of The Great Gatsby so I could feel what it was like to write a great novel.”

“and then i read that hunter s thompson when he was learning how to write he would literally write down the great gatsby line for line so he would sit there and and re-type the great gatsby just so he can get an idea of the rhythm of the pro”

“My favorite character in all of American literature is this guy Jay Gatsby and his name was James Gats. He was from North Dakota and he says, Wow, James Gats is not a sophisticated name, so I'm going to call myself Jay Gatsby. And he reinvents himself”

“the epigraph of the book and of course the title is taken from uh F Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby”

“so you know pushing yourself a little bit is one simple thing they do actually with some of the exercise regimens in space and also and they're monitoring the body you can actually see we could you know scott i don't you know when he talked about in his book that if he didn't work out every day he could”

“F. Scott Fitzgerald is among the most beautiful writers ever to emerge in the world and I think when students have a sentence that takes their breath away when there's a phrase we were reading The Great Gatsby yesterday and I pointed out to my producer that Fitzgerald uses this phrase to describe the night sky, the silver pepper of”

“Well, the type of school that I went to, I mean, yeah, The Great Gatsby, I fell in love with in high school.”

“they did it with Great Gatsby too every you know article Rewritten or whatever it will be written there was a double Plus on good there was a a professor who was who was teaching Great Gatsby and he said my my students don't understand this book they don't get it which by the way it's it's which is another”

“once again didn't he do that with the great gatsby”

“The Great Gatsby is actually, you know, a kid from North Dakota who wants Exactly. and a and a and a gun runner and a you know, gangster basically who wants to get in and they go to his parties.”

“I mean there's Great Gatsby is a great book.”

“I created this like fake release party for a mixtape called Bobby Tarantino 2 that just so happened to be on St Patrick's Day but it was really basically The Great Gatsby are you familiar with the Great Gatsby”