Hey there, Old Sport, Luhrmann is doing Gatsby!

[Suu]

oh christ

My roommates LOVE the Great Gatsby. LOVE it. Last winter, they talked about it incessantly. They threw a Gatsby themed parties. They heard about ANOTHER Gatsby themed party in New Hampshire and drove there just so they could do it again. This is going to set them off into another month of chittering. And then after the movie comes out, another month of bitching about it. CHRIST.

by the way I've never read it, but at this point I don't want to

You really should, but keep it to yourself so your roommates don't get all crazy on you. As far as the American classics go, that's at the top of my list (with fucking Ernest Hemingway waaaaaay at the goddamn bottom.)

[East Coast Hustle]

I hate that book. I will hate this movie. And I will probably want to punch people in the mouth when they yammer on about how great it is.

[East Coast Hustle]

It's like Catcher In The Rye but with a main character who is even more impossible to empathize with than Holden Caulfield.

[Eve]

I hate that book. I will hate this movie. And I will probably want to punch people in the mouth when they yammer on about how great it is.

IT'S THE GREATEST I CAN TELL ALREADY 

[Salty]

It's like Catcher In The Rye but with a main character who is even more impossible to empathize with than Holden Caulfield.

That's all I needed to know. I'll be passing on both book and movie. I tried the book once and shat my pants with the waste of food I hadn't even eaten due to pure boredom.