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Title: a cumbersome bore.
Review: I had to read this book as an assignment, and I found the language cumbersome, and difficult to read. The last chapter says it all, the rest is filler. It is considered a literary masterpiece according to the preface. What makes it a masterpiece is the rewrite Fitzgerald did to make it so boring. It is a tale of monied people leaving shattered lives behind for someone else to pick up, but written with priggish, even highhanded prose.
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