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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

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Gmork

Clip clooooop!

Matty B

Haven't listened but I'm here for another PiaT podcast, Heath Reads a Book.

Denise Huston

The return (and disappearance) of Clip-Clop Tom, AND another installment of the Heath Enright book club?! It really is the most wonderful time of the year!

outaspaceman

More of a, “Tom Tom” guy m’self..🤔

Moriar

I hated this book, when I read it in school. There was a character who lucked into the resources to be stable and content, but instead everyone around him were casually extracting joy from his circumstance until he was left with starvation. My recollection is that the narrative didn't acknowledge the PvP Capitalism axis of the story. Though, I've not listened to the episode and this is an old remembering. I hope to be corrected in my listening to the episode.

Karl Jones

Please don't stop the pre show sketches.

MouthStache

Don't you take away my pre-show shenanigans!

Tim Niemiec

Please don't kill off the pre-show shenanigans 🥺

fried goo

First, thank you for what you all do for us. It is all joy. Second, Revive The Sketch! Please.

Julie Dawley

I really love the pre show shenanigans and hope they dont disappear

literally literally

Here’s to hoping this shenanigans going away bit is just a vonnegutian meta-bit. Right Eli? Right?? Also one of my favorite after-the-beeps. Bravo Clip-Clop Tom

Kurt Montandon

I sure hope you guys aren't getting rid of the opening skit. It's consistently far funnier than the mid-episode skits, which are far more hit than miss. Get rid of those, if anything.

TenaciousB

OMG! Heath Hates a Book! My favorite!! (Also I fucking HATED this book all three times I had to read it for various classes)

Alex Schneider

Not my precious pre-show shenanigans!

Diana

Heath and I have such wildly different tastes in books I'm starting to think I should give Atlas Shrugged another try.

Peter H.

Fuck yeah, another Heath hates the same books I hate episode!

Unofficial_Opinion

Fuck yes I hated this book too. Heathleton, you complete me

CarrieBoo

Please don't cancel the shenanigans!! I live for the shenanigans 😭😭 *the dumb essays I had to write about that dumb green light and those dumb eyes still haunt me. 😑

Elvis Manson

In my gifted English class we didn't have to read this, Catcher in the Rye, Mockingbird etc. We read things like Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Crime and Punishment. Years later I picked up Gatsby at a library and found it a real page turner. Helps to read books voluntarily.

Jonathan

"Heath shits on classic literature" can almost be its own podcast

Crimson Ghost

I know it's exaggerated, but I absolutely agree with Heath's opinion on this, (and so far every), book. It is certainly better written than The Catcher in the Rye and The Sound and the Fury, but it is still a shitty book. I flipped a coin in HS Literature class to decide between this or The Old Man and The Sea and had to read this garbage. I read The Old Man immediately after, just to see if that was maybe worse or something. It was the first and only time I'd felt both insulted and cheated by a school assignment. Gatsby sucks.

Crimson Ghost

I would bump up my monthly payment considerably if we got a quarterly bonus book.

Crimson Ghost

No, don't. No one deserves that.

Jesse Ozog

Trigger warning for teachers

Kate Jay

I would pay handsomely for this

Kate Jay

Fuck this book. The only one I hated more than this in school was Lord of the Flies. And the only reason high school didn't totally put me off any book that counts as Literature was Tequila Mockingbird (what my Lit teacher always called it, she was pretty great. If Stevie Nicks fucked Morticia Addams, Ms B would be their offspring)

outaspaceman

Keats, Keats, Keats, Keats..