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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Manufacturer: Caedmon
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby CD Description
Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780060098919
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 0060098910
Label: Caedmon
Manufacturer: Caedmon
Number Of Items: 6
Book Pages: 7
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher: Caedmon
Product Release Date: 2002-10-01
Studio: Caedmon
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780060098919
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 0060098910
Label: Caedmon
Manufacturer: Caedmon
Number Of Items: 6
Book Pages: 7
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher: Caedmon
Product Release Date: 2002-10-01
Studio: Caedmon
Editorial Review of The Great Gatsby CD
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder." It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated and studied twentieth-century works of American fiction.
This deceptively simple work, Fitzgerald's best known, was hailed by critics as capturing the spirit of the generation. In Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald embodies some of America's strongest obsessions: wealth, power, greed, and the promise of new beginnings.
The recording includes a selection of letters written by Fitzgerald to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, his agent, Harold Ober, and friends and associates, including Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, John Peale Bishop and Gertrude Stein.
Performed by Tim Robbins
Customer Reviews of The Great Gatsby CD
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great narration overall, but some pretty bad spots...
Review: Ok, first off, The Great Gatsby is a great book that somehow reached me back in high school when I loved it even though I was forced to read it... That is indeed a rarity, and is why I've read it quite a few times since then.. I even used Monarch/Cliff notes with this book -- for its intended purpose, and not just to get enough information, so I can pass a test... So the book is great, but you should all know that by now..
Tim Robbins' narration is for the most part, beautifully done... His characterization of Nick Carraway is so captivating and I can really get into the story when Nick is speaking.. The only problem is that Mr. Robbins kinda softens his voice where you have to raise the volume... Which causes some problems when he switches characters - especially to Tom Buchanan, whom Mr Robbins YELLS his lines, causing me to quickly reach for the volume knob in the car...
Theres quite a few characters in this book, and I think Mr. Robbins just ran out of voices.. Some of his characterizations, particularly women, are HORRIBLE. I'll cut him some slack since he's a guy, but if you want to hear the worst stereotypical Long Island (and Southern) female voices, he's nailed it..
Don't let this ruin it for you though, his narration otherwise is one of the best I've heard yet...
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Enchanting....
Review: This is a wonderful reading of the Great AMerican Novella...."The Great Gatsby" , includes exerts from F.Scotts correspondence with potential publishers and friends...reveals his enormous ego, as well as his insecurity and need for public adoration of this work.
I would suggest this as "required" listening for all high school and above students and human beings. I feel, that if we all read, or listened, to "the Great Gatsby", we would see what true good story telling is, and maybe about half of the "crap" at the movies would go away!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: received damaged
Review: received damaged and returned. amazon did not have another copy to send. the $5.00 creidit was mostly offset by my being sharged for shipping. a very unsatisfactory experience
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Very poor audio rendition
Review: I have listened to only a few tracks of this book-on-CD, and maybe I should wait for a while before posting a review, but here is what I can already say. First, while Scott Fitzgerald is clearly a great writer, he writes about characters who are so far from who I am and I care about that I wonder if I will ever really like his novels. I have read "This side of paradise" before listening to this one, and found it equally uninteresting. Almost everyone seems to be an obnoxious and spoiled character. There is way too much aristocracy, money and privilege, and I find all characters rather fake. BUT, what is worse about this CD is... Tim Robbins. He reads mostly with an annoyingly low, dreamy voice, playing all women with a terrible fake-feminine voice which really seems to come from a drag queen. I will never understand why so many men have to read women's voices as if words were spoken by a drag queen. Overall, this is a pretty bad audio book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: gatsby dvd audio
Review: Tim Robbins does an excellent job reading this book! Well worth the purchase.
Review Summary: Great narration overall, but some pretty bad spots...
Review: Ok, first off, The Great Gatsby is a great book that somehow reached me back in high school when I loved it even though I was forced to read it... That is indeed a rarity, and is why I've read it quite a few times since then.. I even used Monarch/Cliff notes with this book -- for its intended purpose, and not just to get enough information, so I can pass a test... So the book is great, but you should all know that by now..
Tim Robbins' narration is for the most part, beautifully done... His characterization of Nick Carraway is so captivating and I can really get into the story when Nick is speaking.. The only problem is that Mr. Robbins kinda softens his voice where you have to raise the volume... Which causes some problems when he switches characters - especially to Tom Buchanan, whom Mr Robbins YELLS his lines, causing me to quickly reach for the volume knob in the car...
Theres quite a few characters in this book, and I think Mr. Robbins just ran out of voices.. Some of his characterizations, particularly women, are HORRIBLE. I'll cut him some slack since he's a guy, but if you want to hear the worst stereotypical Long Island (and Southern) female voices, he's nailed it..
Don't let this ruin it for you though, his narration otherwise is one of the best I've heard yet...
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Enchanting....
Review: This is a wonderful reading of the Great AMerican Novella...."The Great Gatsby" , includes exerts from F.Scotts correspondence with potential publishers and friends...reveals his enormous ego, as well as his insecurity and need for public adoration of this work.
I would suggest this as "required" listening for all high school and above students and human beings. I feel, that if we all read, or listened, to "the Great Gatsby", we would see what true good story telling is, and maybe about half of the "crap" at the movies would go away!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: received damaged
Review: received damaged and returned. amazon did not have another copy to send. the $5.00 creidit was mostly offset by my being sharged for shipping. a very unsatisfactory experience
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Very poor audio rendition
Review: I have listened to only a few tracks of this book-on-CD, and maybe I should wait for a while before posting a review, but here is what I can already say. First, while Scott Fitzgerald is clearly a great writer, he writes about characters who are so far from who I am and I care about that I wonder if I will ever really like his novels. I have read "This side of paradise" before listening to this one, and found it equally uninteresting. Almost everyone seems to be an obnoxious and spoiled character. There is way too much aristocracy, money and privilege, and I find all characters rather fake. BUT, what is worse about this CD is... Tim Robbins. He reads mostly with an annoyingly low, dreamy voice, playing all women with a terrible fake-feminine voice which really seems to come from a drag queen. I will never understand why so many men have to read women's voices as if words were spoken by a drag queen. Overall, this is a pretty bad audio book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: gatsby dvd audio
Review: Tim Robbins does an excellent job reading this book! Well worth the purchase.