1000 Best Books

Reading my way through the best 1000 books as stated by The Guardian

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

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20/1000: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Plot: “ THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.”

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Remember when I said I would be posting in a week? Haha it’s been several months. I’m so sorry it’s been so long! Final year of University combined with being sick has rendered me useless and unable to function. But I have finally finished a non-academic book which honestly has been a battle for me.

This has been a re-read for me, and not one I was necessarily overjoyed to read. Whilst I have no problem with it, and it is an exceptionally well-written book, I find myself neither extremely in love with or annoyed by this book. Perhaps it is because this was a Secondary School English book for me, and the over-analysis ruins my enjoyment of it, but I’ve never been truly in love with it as others are in love with the book. Sure, I love a good allegory/metaphor for the dying American Dream, the meaning of the flashing green light and the criticism of capitalism and the jazz era, but it’s just not my favourite. Whilst I would obviously recommend it as I think it is a very iconic book, I don’t find it to be one of my favourites, I just find that I think something is missing. It may just be because of how well revered the book is within literary circles, but I just find it to be slightly overrated and sensationalised to an extent I find myself more critical than with other pieces of literature, despite it being very well written.

I’m sorry it’s been so long, I have about 25 days until I finish my dissertation so I can focus a bit more on this then :) 

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Hi guys, again some nsfw spam somehow got onto this blog. Sorry if anyone saw it and was upset. (But new post coming tomorrow!)

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Hi, fingers crossed, I think I have it sorted! Again, I’m really sorry!