Originally posted by Pariah
Originally posted by nittany2b
Originally posted by Pariah
Originally posted by nittany2b
And The Great Gatsby was an awful book btw.
I see you have been using Google and Wikipedia. Well, I hate to burst your bubble but Dean Koontz isn't considered a good writer.
Who the hell is Koontz and how'd he get into this? Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby.
And no not wiki, AP English Language in junior year of high school. Yes I'm only a high school kid. We read some damn awful books last year... The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (communist bastard), The Scarlet Letter which I believe was Hawthorne, The Great Gatsby, list goes on. Only decent book we read was Twain's Huck Finn.
And for summer reading for AP English Literature I have The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, which is apparently a Gatsby clone. Oh no...
lol...Hemingway is brilliant but can be boring. Most modern metaphorical writers can be. He was the originator of the "iceberg" technique - used in his famous and brilliant short story "Hills Like White Elephants." I like "A Farewell to Arms" but some parts were hard to get through because of how dry it can be.
I was rather impartial to Gatsby and Fitzgerald - I just liked his original name.
Yea that's a pretty good break-down on Hemingway. It was interesting to read about how he and Fitzgerald knew each other and see the relations between the two and characters in their books. Like in The Sun Also Rises Fitzgerald's common lateness and overall oddness in showing up (one time he tracked Hemingway down for weeks in Europe) shows up in Brett's character. Funny how they just write stories based on what happens in their screwed up lives, lol.
Originally posted by nittany2b
Originally posted by Pariah
Originally posted by nittany2b
And The Great Gatsby was an awful book btw.
I see you have been using Google and Wikipedia. Well, I hate to burst your bubble but Dean Koontz isn't considered a good writer.
Who the hell is Koontz and how'd he get into this? Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby.
And no not wiki, AP English Language in junior year of high school. Yes I'm only a high school kid. We read some damn awful books last year... The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (communist bastard), The Scarlet Letter which I believe was Hawthorne, The Great Gatsby, list goes on. Only decent book we read was Twain's Huck Finn.
And for summer reading for AP English Literature I have The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, which is apparently a Gatsby clone. Oh no...
lol...Hemingway is brilliant but can be boring. Most modern metaphorical writers can be. He was the originator of the "iceberg" technique - used in his famous and brilliant short story "Hills Like White Elephants." I like "A Farewell to Arms" but some parts were hard to get through because of how dry it can be.
I was rather impartial to Gatsby and Fitzgerald - I just liked his original name.
Yea that's a pretty good break-down on Hemingway. It was interesting to read about how he and Fitzgerald knew each other and see the relations between the two and characters in their books. Like in The Sun Also Rises Fitzgerald's common lateness and overall oddness in showing up (one time he tracked Hemingway down for weeks in Europe) shows up in Brett's character. Funny how they just write stories based on what happens in their screwed up lives, lol.
