OK, I so want to read your copy of Gatsby, because (as I try and mention whenever I possibly can), my most favorite thing in the whole entire world is finding notes in the margins of books. LOVE. IT.
Jennie! | Homepage | 01.16.08 - 8:49 am | #

Wait, your book has hos, too? Dude, same as Gossip Girl!
heather! anne! | Homepage | 01.16.08 - 9:27 am | #

I'm mostly a bracket-er and a star-er in my margins.

I got to teach this book a couple of summers ago, and I think it was the best lecture I gave. But really, how could it not be?-- it was some of the best material.
mysterygirl! | Homepage | 01.16.08 - 9:54 am | #

I'm all about brackets in the margin, too. And underlining, with cryptic editors' shorthand when appropriate. Yes, another reason I'm an asshole: I edit books as I read them post-publication, AND, often am convinced that my edits are better.
shari | Homepage | 01.16.08 - 11:03 am | #

When I read my favorite book, I become a zombie. Wherever I go, the book goes with me, in my line of vision. People learn to move out of the way...as they should, I mean Melissa Bank is so much more important than they are. :)

Gamecocks?! Really? I. may. vomit.
broke bertha | 01.16.08 - 12:35 pm | #

I just read it for the first time two months ago. I don't think I would have appreciated it until then.
Ashley | Homepage | 01.16.08 - 1:15 pm | #

Ashley, I totally understand. I read it in high school and was all "this is stupid," and then when I reread it, I realized that I was stupid (no huge revelation there).
Jennie! | Homepage | 01.16.08 - 1:27 pm | #

I read The Great Gatsby for a month one afternoon.
Jenn The Sister | 01.16.08 - 1:51 pm | #

jennie! - you can read my copy, but you have to do it here; i can't risk sending it through the mail.

h! a! - bitches AND hos.

mg! - i remember the first time we went out for drinks and we talked gatsby for like an hour, and that's when i knew i needed an ! too.

shari - you ARE an asshole! hee.

broke bertha - i didn't go to USC. i just like saying "cock" a lot.

ashley - true story. the older i get, the more i get it.

jenn - have you seen the movie? the one with robert redford and mia farrow? i bet it would help.
kat! | Homepage | 01.16.08 - 2:23 pm | #

I once admitted to a colleague that while Gatsby is not my favorite book (easily in the top 20 though), I think it is the most perfectly written book in the English language.
Grad School Reject | Homepage | 01.16.08 - 4:15 pm | #

and thus, you have redeemed yourself.
broke bertha | 01.16.08 - 5:36 pm | #

My favorite in the Gatsby series was "Gatsby Meets Frankenstein." Classic.

Hello, Collective.
scott | Homepage | 01.17.08 - 11:36 am | #

gsr - my goal is to get you so drunk on saturday that i'll be able to CONVINCE you with the power of my DRUNKEN PERSUASION that gatsby is your favorite book.

bertha - i also like saying "ho" a lot.

scott - it was way better than "gatsby vs. the aliens," that's for sure.
kat! | Homepage | 01.17.08 - 3:05 pm | #

meow
W. Zeddmore | 01.18.08 - 6:58 pm | #

I read it some years ago, but sadly I could not tell you a single thing about it*. Nada. Not that you need me to.

*except that that are hos!
peefer | Homepage | 01.23.08 - 11:50 pm | #