Monday, October 30, 2006
Well, I finished the book already. Three times. Once on friday, saturday and sunday. Muahahahahahha. Coffee helps. But not when you have a floorball match the next day very early in the morning against a bunch of fit and huge NUS people. Anyway, the book became interesting to me once i realised how influential it was. I began reading about its past, and I realised its influence or other books and films. The glitzy scene of America became the scene for many of hollywoods shows, and the romantic storyline which i felt was predictable was only because i realised that the great(and not so great) hollywood films, have loosely used the plot and the concept of the book many times. For example, the whole "past lovers" thing, which brings about moral dilemna, is an issue in Casablanca as well. And the new rich vs aristocrat rich is also another issue raised in films like "Titanic", although it does emulate PnP to a certain extent but in a more objective and balanced way.
bubblebuddy took the leap at 6:36 AM
Thursday, October 26, 2006
:P The west egg and the east egg are fictional names for some place called hampton beach. I actually researched it, because apparently I couldnt believe a place could ever be called west egg... Oh yah and by the way i finished reading the book till chapter 3. Isnt that just lovely
bubblebuddy took the leap at 10:39 PM
One look at the book, and I knew it wouldn't be so simple. The back cover said it was the the "supreme American novel". The first few chapters sounded like heart of darkness because it was in first person, and because it was about the character explaining about his background, and because it had intolerably long sentences with a plenty of difficult words which sometimes made no sense. In fact, the American slangs used made it even more confusing than HOD. However after reading the first few pages again i realised that it wasnt that bad...But i still didnt understand how being 'privy' to wild men made Mr Nick a politician??? Obviously someone with the name as complicated as Fitzgerrald or something like that had to make a complicated book just like Joseph conrad. His name was even more commplicated till he had to just shorten it. So my new theory is, writers with complicated names make complicated books, period. Just kidding...hehe
bubblebuddy took the leap at 5:20 AM
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