“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.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Lessoned learned: Don’t make a person into a symbol for success.

The third book on this list:
https://www.britannica.com/list/12-novels-considered-the-greatest-book-ever-written

#quotes #LiteraryClassics #Booksodon #reading #TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald

23 Modern & The Great Gatsby
My new zine launch!
Essay by @gregolear
🙏🙏🙏
100 page zine-experiment in AI visual storytelling, images created utilizing AI tools & some Photoshop. Ive been offline for a while working on this and two other long form AI art projects.

The Great Gatsby was published 98 yrs ago today.

#AIART #thegreatgatsby #postphotography

https://indd.adobe.com/view/afa019c7-d232-478a-ac12-3ca8006b375b

Happy anniversary to one of my most treasured books. #FScottFitzgerald #TheGreatGatsby

http://foritismansnumber.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-great-gatsby-2013.html?m=1

Finally got around to writing my review of this one.

#blog #blogger #review #MovieReview #TheGreatGatsby #BazLuhrmann #CraigPearce #FScottFitzgerald #LeonardoDicaprio #TobeyMaguire #CareyMulligan #JoelEdgerton #ElizabethDebicki #IslaFisher #JasonClarke

Found Tom Buchanan

#TheGreatGatsby #DiscoElysium

49 years ago:
The Great Gatsby (US)
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
1974-03-27
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11034
#TheGreatGatsby #RobertRedford #MiaFarrow #BruceDern #Paramount #ClassicFilm

136 nieuwe Engelse woorden en frasen heeft het boek mij geleerd.
#thegreatGatsby

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
THE END”
#thegreatGatsby

“Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved.”
- it's the early placement of Buchanan's racist fiery outburst
...it frames the mad urgency to follow...the inner panic behind the aimless rich wanderings and party high jinks #thegreatgatsby

‘I’ve heard of making a garage out of a stable,’ Tom was saying to Gatsby, ‘but I’m the first man who ever made a stable out of a garage.’ #thegreatGatsby

#Filmfest 805 #Cinema #Film #Movies #Movie #MovingPicture #USA1974 #RobertRedford #MiaFarrow #TheGreatGatsby

Der große Gatsby (The Great Gatsby, USA 1974) #Filmfest 805

https://derwahlberliner.com/2022/07/04/der-grose-gatsby-the-great-gatsby-usa-1974-filmfest-805/

#GeorgeSantosNeedsToResign . . . Assuming that’s his real name. Just another Long Island fraud a la #TheGreatGatsby

Harbor City called George Santos a ‘perfect fit.’ The SEC called the company a fraud. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/01/15/george-santos-harbor-city-capital/

#thegreatgatsby was assigned reading my sophomore year of high school.
The racism went completely over my head. Like….wow.
#books #reading #history

#thegreatgatsby was assigned reading my sophomore year of high school.
The racism went completely over my head. Like….wow.
#books #reading #history

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

#TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #DetectiveClassics #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon

The Great GatsBea - from one of my daily Bea Arthur art projects #beaaday #goldengirls #art #thegreatgatsby

OK, I'll do a #7Books Saturday. To know me, know first:

Le Guin: The Dispossessed
Fitzgerald: #TheGreatGatsby
Joyce, The Dead
Morrison, Sula
Piercy, Woman On the Edge of Time
Plath, Ariel
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Disturbances In the Field
Whitman, Leaves of Grass
FWIW,, #Bookstodon

OK, I'll do a #7Books Saturday. To know me, know first:

Le Guin: The Dispossessed
Fitzgerald: #TheGreatGatsby
Joyce, The Dead
Morrison, Sula
Piercy, Woman On the Edge of Time
Plath, Ariel
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Disturbances In the Field
Whitman, Leaves of Grass
FWIW,, #Bookstodon

Further to my #intro #introduction #introductions, these are my #books, if anyone is interested. “The Sting of It” (Tolsun Books) my #poetry collection, won best LGBTQ Book in the 2019 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. “The Pursued and the Pursuing” (DartFrog Blue), my #novel, is a queering/continuation of #TheGreatGatsby that won 2nd Place in the Adult Historical category of the 2021 Reads Rainbow Awards.