The Great Gatsby (Audible Audio Edition) F Scott Fitzgerald Jake Gyllenhaal Audible Studios Books
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Audie Award Finalist, Classic, 2014
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This new audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, who rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby. There, he has a firsthand view of Gatsby's lavish West Egg parties - and of his undying love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.
After meeting and losing Daisy during the war, Gatsby has made himself fabulously wealthy. Now, he believes that his only way to true happiness is to find his way back into Daisy's life, and he uses Nick to try to reach her. What happens when the characters' fantasies are confronted with reality makes for a startling conclusion to this iconic masterpiece.
This special audio edition joins the upcoming film - as well as many other movie, radio, theater, and even video-game adaptations - as a fitting tribute to the cultural significance of Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic, widely regarded as one of the greatest stories ever told.
The Great Gatsby (Audible Audio Edition) F Scott Fitzgerald Jake Gyllenhaal Audible Studios Books
Back in high school, I read F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 The Great Gatsby and Ernest Hemingway's 1926 The Sun Also Rises. At the time, I wasn't impressed with either, considering both to be shallow tales of spoiled rich folk. I gave The Sun Also Rises another chance a couple of years ago, and was so impressed with the power of Hemingway's novel that I quickly read the rest of his major works, and some of his minor. I just finished re-reading The Great Gatsby, and while it didn't leap up as much in my estimation as The Sun Also Rises, I did appreciate it more than I did back in high school.The story of The Great Gatsby does, in fact, revolve around the discontent well-off of Jazz Age New York. Our narrator, Nick Carraway, is the one decent guy in the book, while the titular Jay Gatsby, his old flame Daisy, Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan, and Carraway's love interest Jordan Baker are all despicable people in one way or another, though this time reading it, I was able to appreciate as certain tragedy to Gatsby that had previously been lost on me.
The main thread of the novel it Gatsby's attempt to win Daisy back to him. There are also parties. Lots of parties. You may not know much about the mysterious Gatsby until the end of the novel, but one thing you know from the start is that he throws a hell of a party. You might also finish the novel with an urge to start calling everyone "Old Sport." Try to resist it.
What I enjoyed most about the novel this reading was the language. Fitzgerald at times seems to be writing poetry as much as he is fiction, so lyrical and evocative is his writing. You'll finish the novel with many memorable phrases and scenes still echoing in your mind. While his contemporary and friend Hemingway wrote powerfully using as few words as possible, resembling a minimalist stone sculpture, Fitzgerald strings together glittering, complex phrases that call to mind a necklace of sparking diamonds. Between the two, I like Hemingway's approach more, but those jewels of Fitzgerald's - they do shine brightly and catch the eye.
I listened to Blackstone Audio's 2007 production of The Great Gatsby, read by Anthony Heald. Heald did a fantastic job with the novel. The tone he used for this production fit the Jazz Age drama perfectly, and he captured all the characters very well. I had not listened to anything narrated by Heald before, but after listening to his recording of The Great Gatsby, he's on my audio book narrator radar. The unabridged recording runs approximately five hours.
In the end, I'm glad I gave The Great Gatsby another chance. I don't love it as much as I ended up loving Hemingway's work, but Fitzgerald's most famous novel was well worth reading again, and it has a fitting place as an American classic.
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The Great Gatsby (Audible Audio Edition) F Scott Fitzgerald Jake Gyllenhaal Audible Studios Books Reviews
Most of the reviews here seem to be about the book itself, and not this particular presentation of the book. That's a shame because it is so vital to understand that this is an ABRIDGED version of the novel. It is NOT the full text, it is NOT the original edition. Even the first line has been cut from the famous,"In my younger and more vulnerable years..." to a rather less sparkling, "In my younger years..." Whatever your opinions about "Gatsby" will be you owe it to yourself to listen to the real thing and not a stunted version based on what some editor believes you are capable of handling.
Fitzgerald's remarkable writing comes alive in this fresh and compelling narration by Mr. Hendrie. Gatsby and his world became so vividly real and appealing that I dare say I could listen to this audio book rendition again and again and again...
So much has been said about the book, The Great Gatsby, but since this is the audio book and features a fine narrator, Tim Robbins, I'll focus on that. He's amazing--not just in having many fun, interesting, and convincing voices for all the characters, but also in truly contributing to the beauty of the words. He brings perfect pauses, whispers, off-handedness and then deliberateness; it's delightful. It's possible that I appreciated the book more because I'm older now, but I think possibly that this gifted reading of it is why I liked The Great Gatsby even better this time around.
Back in high school, I read F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 The Great Gatsby and Ernest Hemingway's 1926 The Sun Also Rises. At the time, I wasn't impressed with either, considering both to be shallow tales of spoiled rich folk. I gave The Sun Also Rises another chance a couple of years ago, and was so impressed with the power of Hemingway's novel that I quickly read the rest of his major works, and some of his minor. I just finished re-reading The Great Gatsby, and while it didn't leap up as much in my estimation as The Sun Also Rises, I did appreciate it more than I did back in high school.
The story of The Great Gatsby does, in fact, revolve around the discontent well-off of Jazz Age New York. Our narrator, Nick Carraway, is the one decent guy in the book, while the titular Jay Gatsby, his old flame Daisy, Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan, and Carraway's love interest Jordan Baker are all despicable people in one way or another, though this time reading it, I was able to appreciate as certain tragedy to Gatsby that had previously been lost on me.
The main thread of the novel it Gatsby's attempt to win Daisy back to him. There are also parties. Lots of parties. You may not know much about the mysterious Gatsby until the end of the novel, but one thing you know from the start is that he throws a hell of a party. You might also finish the novel with an urge to start calling everyone "Old Sport." Try to resist it.
What I enjoyed most about the novel this reading was the language. Fitzgerald at times seems to be writing poetry as much as he is fiction, so lyrical and evocative is his writing. You'll finish the novel with many memorable phrases and scenes still echoing in your mind. While his contemporary and friend Hemingway wrote powerfully using as few words as possible, resembling a minimalist stone sculpture, Fitzgerald strings together glittering, complex phrases that call to mind a necklace of sparking diamonds. Between the two, I like Hemingway's approach more, but those jewels of Fitzgerald's - they do shine brightly and catch the eye.
I listened to Blackstone Audio's 2007 production of The Great Gatsby, read by Anthony Heald. Heald did a fantastic job with the novel. The tone he used for this production fit the Jazz Age drama perfectly, and he captured all the characters very well. I had not listened to anything narrated by Heald before, but after listening to his recording of The Great Gatsby, he's on my audio book narrator radar. The unabridged recording runs approximately five hours.
In the end, I'm glad I gave The Great Gatsby another chance. I don't love it as much as I ended up loving Hemingway's work, but Fitzgerald's most famous novel was well worth reading again, and it has a fitting place as an American classic.
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