Read The Great Gatsby Audible Audio Edition F Scott Fitzgerald Jake Gyllenhaal Audible Studios Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 4 hours and 49 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Audible Studios Audible.com Release Date April 9, 2013 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B00BWY8FAU

The Great Gatsby Audible Audio Edition F Scott Fitzgerald Jake Gyllenhaal Audible Studios Books Reviews

• This review is about this version of the book, not the story itself. This is a "bootleg" version of the book, not an authentic publication. The cover has a poor quality picture (as evidenced by the visible pixels) and the book itself is typed in a different font than the publisher intended. I purchased this book for my son's high school english class and we had to get a different copy as this version has NO publication information. NO copyright information. Students are required to cite that information and this book doesn't even have a page for this information. Had I known, I would have purchased a different version. Unfortunately, the class didn't start reading the book until after my return window had closed or it would have gone back for sure.
   The Great Gatsby
• This is the third time I've read this book, and have gained a new appreciation for it, as I had as a companion piece Matthew Bruccoli's Some Sort of Epic Grandeur. He devotes 93 pages to Fitzgerald's process and struggle with this, his last complete novel. It took him nine years, with many false starts. It was not until 1930-1931 that he wrote five short stories that allowed him to develop themes that would later be incorporated into Tender is the Night—"One Trip Abroad", "The Hotel Child", Babylon Revisited", "On Your Own", and "Emotional Bankruptcy". It was these stories that allowed him to write Zelda and himself into the novel. Zelda's mental illness is the catalytic event , but the subject of the novel becomes Fitzgerald's waste of his genius as expressed through the career of Dr. Richard Diver, who plunges from great promise to failure.
  Fitzgerald finally has material he feels strongly about Zelda's breakdown, and his own deterioration. He has a store of painful emotions to draw from. Dick Diver is ruined by the rich at the simplest level, but the true source of his collapse is his need to be loved and admired, leading him to squander his emotional capital. He succeeds at curing his patient-wife at the cost of his own career.
• Most High School kids are well aware of the Great Gatsby, but I really enjoyed this Side of Paradise. The World has come a long way, since this book was first written, and yet much of the story is kind of a modern tale. Given the world of Social Media where High school and College never end, it’s pretty much standard for kids to seek Status, instead of seeking opportunity. And if you’re into epic prose, witty banter, and style, then you can truly never go wrong with a Fitzgerald book. Now more than ever, the Status Seeking, Social Climbing, Style Conscious, Social Media addicts need to get back to This Side of Paradise.
• Sure, we all recognize this as an American classic. But, unless you're a Fitzgerald completist, an alumnus of Princeton, a fan of books edited by Max Perkins, or keen on post-World War I American fiction or lost generation fiction, the continuing relevance of this particular book, (as opposed to "The Great Gatsby"), might escape you. I sympathize. But, there is a very nice volume, in the public domain, that's available as a freebie from . If you are curious, want to see what the fuss was about, or just in a browsing mood, this is a fine, readable edition. I was actually a bit surprised by some of the places Fitzgerald went with this book, and enjoyed many of the scenes and bits of conversation, and so ended up happy I had taken it up.
  
  I found and read the freebie public domain edition of this book. It has been available here on for many years. I read the download on a Touch.
  
  The book is well formatted and presents well on the . The native font is fine, but all the options - font selection, font size, line spacing, and margins - work properly. The book has a sloppy Table of Contents which I did not find to be active. The "Go To" function was a better choice for navigation anyway. There are no notes or annotations, and no editor foreword or supplementary material, apart from one page of production notes. This is a bare bones, but faithful, transcription of the text. This copy avoids the dreaded error where a letter, (usually "f" or "t" for some reason), has been omitted everywhere in the text. The text here is clean. There are no, (or very, very few), odd page breaks, no paragraphing problems, no garbled sentences, and no other format issues.
  
  Bottom line - this is an excellent choice for browsing or experimenting and a nice freebie find.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald's anthem to the Lost Generation, "This Side of Paradise" gave me insight into the effect of war on a generation. The description of the carefree, pampered years of a boy reared in the world of private schools and elite universities showed us an inward looking generation indoctrinated in the beliefs of their parents. The crucible of World War I refined the generation into one that developed their own wisdom and generational spokesmen. I saw many parallels Fitzgerald's generation and today's post 9/11 youngsters.