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Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel by Mistri on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:06PM (#26085642)
High school ruined this book for me. It would've been easier to read if I hadn't been forced to tear apart every single sentence for analysis. Hearing "Great Gatsby" triggers my gag reflex now, along with most other books I analyzed in high school.
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Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel by tjalfi on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:31AM (#26088299)
Literary augury[0] is my term for that kind of literature discussion.

[0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury

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Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel by toyg on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:38AM (#26086835)
In Italy that happens with Dante’s Divina Commedia and Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi. Very good reads on their own, they get absolutely destroyed by being forced on kids.
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Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel by jwdunne on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:06AM (#26087002)
Similar thing happened to me but with Of Mice and Men and Macbeth. Come to enjoy those stories but it always felt like I was meant to glean a deeper meaning than even the author intended!
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Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel by RBerenguel on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:31PM (#26095702)
I had this with The Picture of Dorian Gray, but on a re-read later (several years on a bored weekend, that was before I wrote code or read about code most of the time) I came to really appreciate it.
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Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel by throwawayboise on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:06PM (#26096093)
Yep same. HS English classes pretty much killed all desire to read Shakespear or any of the "important" American authors. Kurt Vonnegut's works are the only ones I remember enjoying.
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Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel by WalterBright on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:59PM (#26096009)
I finally got around to reading Romeo+Juliet in my 40's. It was much better than I expected, aside from all the tired cliches in the prose.
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Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel by ecopoesis on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:25PM (#26096252)
Shakespeare invented those “tired cliches.”
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Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel by whalesalad on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:39PM (#26098012)
Same here. High school English was traumatizing.
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