Episode · The Book Review · 2025-04-11
Books mentioned on 'The Great Gatsby' at 100
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F.
Recommended“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”
Where to get it
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Tender is the Night
Tender is the Night by F.
Recommended“even though he wrote after Gatsby I think what is actually his masterpiece Tender is the night.”
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville is a classic American novel detailing Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for revenge against the giant white sperm whale.
Discussed“And the book was forgotten too in in Moby Dick almost. It's like that. I mean, Moby Dick had a longer obscurity”
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye by J.
Discussed“It's the book that Holden Caulfield talks about. Maybe the only book that Holden Coughfield and Catcher and the Ry kind of talks about with reverence”
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The Stranger, The Plague (Coles Notes)
The Stranger by Albert Camus is a foundational work of absurdist literature that explores the profound alienation and emotional detachment of its protagonist, Meursault, against the backdrop of colonial Algeria.
Discussed“Gatsby became a kind of an alienated a tragic figure not as the victim of a cruel class society which may be how he might have looked in the 20s or how he might look now but more as a sort of the malaise of modern life as a figure like Holden Caulfield or like Muro in Kamu's the stranger”
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