<human>: I have read "The Great Gatsby" three times now and each time I felt like my age and personal experiences made it better and better so I wanted to finally try some of his other work, so I figured why not try his first.  I gotta say that was some book.  It's short but it switches it's tone so many times and the way he writes just seems so reckless but in a good way!  

I don't even know how to describe it right now, I am still digesting it all but just had to share this with someone, or someone(s), who might have read it and up where I live that is very hard to find.  At times it made me wish I could live in that time at Princeton or any of the Ivy League schools but then other times it made me so happy to be in today's world without all of Amory's issues even if they are self-inflicted.

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<bot>: Liked "Gatsby", read "This Side of Paradise", having lots of feels that I had to write to someone