Gatsby Still Great After 80 Years

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	• The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald Recorded Books, LLC, 1984 average customer review:based on 2 reviews
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Gatsby Still Great After 80 Years

When Fitzgerald wrote "Gatsby," the Great Depression was still several years away. World War I, only a few years past, seemed already a vague memory to the men in the story. Parallels in Fitzgerald's and Gatsby's lives are not so subtle, and if "write what you know" is the best advice a writer can take, Fitzgerald here takes it and runs with it. Reading the book as a teenager, as many people do, left me with no particular feelings, but experiencing "Gatsby" again as a middle-aged man, I can more fully appreciate Fitzgerald's lyrical talent with words and the themes he explores. Loyalty, longing, and living for a dream that has, without your noticing, already slipped away. Frank Muller's wry narration gives just the right kind of touches to the many characters.

This is part of the George Waters "re-experience the classics while commuting" series.

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Fantastic reading

Frank Muller was a fantastic narrator. He reads Gatsby fabulously - and I enjoy the writing very much.

I've listened to this book 3 times and I have listened to many other books read by Frank Muller. Amongst these books were some of the Dark Tower series (which are fantastic). Frank is easily one of my favorite performers and was a truly great loss in the field.