Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Book: The Great Gatsby

Decent book. Rather than a story line, this book is like an incident report...the story is made up of a selective series of incidents the narrator is involved in. The book is rather small, It finishes before it can pick up pace...and that is one reason I like this book, the author seems to be working on a 'need to know' principle, we are not given an entire character analysis, we get to know only that facet of the character that is of interest to us, nothing more nothing less
(unlike some other pieces of crap that pass as books, which have highly detailed narratives like describing the rim of the dustbin etc etc one such highly disgusting book is "Franny and Zooey" yuck!)
Also there are no black and white characters, all characters have shades of grey.

I guess all se7en sins are present in the characters.

A good read!

2 comments:

Amit Bulbule said...

hey i too have that book...and ya its a good read...

Apoorv Gawde said...

Amit ~ Yeah its realistic

Krishna ~ Yeahhh i agree, dont think its path breaking :)