Current Events > uh, apparently there's a The Great Gatsby prequel coming out tomorrow

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0881X9HRS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1

Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this "masterful" look into his life before Gatsby (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS and CHANCES ARE)
Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was at the center of a very different story-one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I.
Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed firsthand, Nick delays his return home, hoping to escape the questions he cannot answer about the horrors of war. Instead, he embarks on a transcontinental redemptive journey that takes him from a whirlwind Paris romance-doomed from the very beginning-to the dizzying frenzy of New Orleans, rife with its own flavor of debauchery and violence.
An epic portrait of a truly singular era and a sweeping, romantic story of self-discovery, this rich and imaginative novel breathes new life into a character that many know but few have pondered deeply. Charged with enough alcohol, heartbreak, and profound yearning to paralyze even the heartiest of golden age scribes, Nick reveals the man behind the narrator who has captivated readers for decades.

this ain't it old sport

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No one asked for this

The wonders of the public domain.

The Gatsby

"Oh hey this masterpiece is in the public domain. I can totally write a prequel for purposeful artistic reasons and not at all coast off the name recognition with a subpar piece of shit that there is no reason should exist!"
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I could never make it through The Great Gatsby, tbh.

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Pretty Good Gatsby

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The Rise of the Great Gatsby. Oh wait it's about Nick's past. Who cares about that?

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lol, Great Gatsby entered the public domain 3 days ago.

This ls literally just fan fiction that can now be legally published without Fitzgerald's estate suing.

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I'll give it a chance, he is a Pulitzer winning author so it might be good
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PepsiWithCoke posted...

lol, Great Gatsby entered the public domain 3 days ago.

This ls literally just fan fiction that can now be legally published without Fitzgerald's estate suing.

Yeah, he likely already had this written and ready to go.

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Alright I've got some books to publish.

The Renaissance Prometheus
A tale of one city
Birth of a Salesman
1000 Nights
Atlas Twitched
The Epic of Gilgamesh's dad

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Tyranthraxus posted...

A tale of one city
Birth of a Salesman
1000 Nights
The Epic of Gilgamesh's dad

lol @ those parody prequel title names


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DuranOfForcena posted...

Gatsby Rising

Revengence

Gatsby Beyond.

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Nick Carraway was a little bitch

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I will be forced to read this shit since I love The Great Gatsby

Returning_CEmen posted...

I will be forced to read this shit since I love The Great Gatsby

If you love the great gatsby you should definitely not read this. This is like reading 50 Shades of Grey because you love Twilight.

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Caraway was deliberately written as boring and uninspired to contrast him with Gatsby. A whole story about him isn't a great idea.
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lilORANG posted...

Caraway was deliberately written as boring and uninspired to contrast him with Gatsby. A whole story about him isn't a great idea.

I enjoyed his simping

But he's only been drunk once in his life before the events of The Great Gatsby. If this is full of alcohol it's already a plothole

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Alright I've got some books to publish.
Atlas Twitched

Atlas Shrugged isn't public domain yet.

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jumi posted...

Atlas Shrugged isn't public domain yet.

It will be in 2053.

Gotta hurry and get it done quick.

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

But he's only been drunk once in his life before the events of The Great Gatsby. If this is full of alcohol it's already a plothole

I mean if you pay attention to the book its quite clear that Nick is a liar who tries to sell himself as a moral truth teller.

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It's gonna be a pass from me.

I liked the Great Gatsby, and I'm not gonna let this shit taint that.

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For the people freaking out and disregarding this

The guy is a pulitzer prize winner, so I strongly doubt it's going to be a shitty soulless fanfic lol. Simmer down.

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ew lol

A heavy morning fog draped across Paris and there was the corner caf. The wicker chairs and the flowers on each table and the small man with the small eyes who sang while he worked. The chairs next to the window where Nick sat each morning and drank espresso and watched the hours of his leave tick away and on the days when the sun filtered through the trees and fell upon the cathedral across the street it seemed to him that there could be no killing. There could be no war. There could be no way that one man could drive a bayonet through the skin and bone of another until the tip of the blade dug into the earth underneath.

On the days when the children began to appear inthe park in front of the cathedral and climb and tumble and chase and the sun came full and the small man sang a long and turning song, then he felt the strange calmness of belonging in such a moment, so far from home, so close to going back to the front, the assurance of the Parisian day warming him so much that sometimes he had to unbutton the top button of his uniform and allow the warmth to escape before it became something else.

The morning of the fog, there was no light slashing across the statues of saints and there were no children. Only him and her and the singing man. She sat with him with her legs crossed and her hands flat on the table waiting for Nick to touch them and she said I want to see you in the morning when you wake. She had said this to him before he slept each of the last seven nights, the only seven nights he had known her, the longest he had ever spent time with any woman. His days spent walking with her and trying to understand her elementary English and her trying to teach him words on street signs and in shop windows.

the first few paragraphs

reads more like blood meridian <_<

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Who asked for this? I like The Great Gatsby, but it's not a story that needs a prequel. If you had to do one, why Nick and not Gatsby himself? Some stories of Gatsby doing some bootlegging would be more interesting.

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wait. Isn't this the plot of The Razor's Edge?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Razor%27s_Edge_(1984_film)

Am I the only one that enjoyed the book and movie?

What do you mean the only one? It's the greatest American novel.

There's the Robert Redford movie which is okay except they leave out the last line of the book; I mean come on...
Then there's the Leo DiCaprio one which has ragtime dubstep or something and I was never interested in it...

Southernfatman posted...

Who asked for this?

This is always one of the weakest observations/criticisms of media

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Doom_Art posted...

This is always one of the weakest observations/criticisms of media

Oh give me a break. It's not like people were really wanting to know the backstory of Nick.

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They expected the counter attack at daybreak. The guns rat tat tatted all through the night, white flashes across a clouded landscape that might have been brilliant starbursts in a more imaginative and peaceful place. Flares spiraled, red and yellow arcs of light that kept their eyes open and toward the sky. At sunrise the mist hung low across the land and rose out of the craters like a great mob of spirits ascending and then they heard the planes and it began. Grenades and shellfire threw the earth toward the sky and then came the roar of thousands of hungry men going for the throats of thousands of other hungry men. The rifles fired and once they were emptied the bayonets and once they were broken off in the rib cages out came the knives and the hands and knees and fists and whatever else could be used to kill. The constant explosions around them and they began to separate, the living and the dead and those somewhere in between. Men and pieces of men. Some walked through the battle, inattentive, looking for arms and hands. Another held the back of his head together with both hands. Some ran away and some played dead and others had long been void of humanity and ripped and shredded like barbarians that needed blood to survive.

A sergeant passed through and a new face was the only one who rose to attention and the sergeant told him to look around. You dont see nobody else saluting do you? We dont bother with that on the line. Save your getting up and getting down for the bad guys. Nick took the cigarette from his mouth and handed it to the newbie and he took it and he said I never done that. I never done what I just did.

yeah this is more mccarthy fan fiction than gatsby fan fiction

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lilORANG posted...

Caraway was deliberately written as boring and uninspired to contrast him with Gatsby. A whole story about him isn't a great idea.

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I really enjoyed Gatsby as a teen. No one asked for this though.

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Southernfatman posted...

Oh give me a break. It's not like people were really wanting to know the backstory of Nick.

It literally is though

No one asked for this? Get real. So a piece of media is only valid if there were people clamoring for it beforehand?

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Doom_Art posted...

It literally is though

No one asked for this? Get real. So a piece of media is only valid if there were people clamoring for it beforehand?

It's just a smart ass answer to things that aren't really appealing or interesting. Good grief.

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Step back, Marvel. Here comes the Gatsby Cinematic Universe.

Southernfatman posted...

It's just a smart ass answer to things that aren't really appealing or interesting. Good grief.

I just see it a ton and it always comes across as rather empty and lazy criticism

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CommonGrackle posted...

What do you mean the only one? It's the greatest American novel.

There's the Robert Redford movie which is okay except they leave out the last line of the book; I mean come on...
Then there's the Leo DiCaprio one which has ragtime dubstep or something and I was never interested in it...

Greatest American novel? Lol.

*laughs in Twain, Faulkner, and Hemingway*

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The Rise of the Planet of the Gatsby

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I read the Great Gatsby in high school but don't remember much from it. Much more enjoyed dystopian novels like Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.

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Is it me or is there a lack of imagination these days?

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Would much rather have it be about Gatsby than Nick.

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littlebro07 posted...

Would much rather have it be about Gatsby than Nick.

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Fun fact - when The Great Gatsby became public domain, someone copy-pasted the entire story into Archive Of Our Own. The description is like "it's just The Great Gatsby, nothing else, the entire original novel from start to finish" - but of course, the person who did it included a single paragraph where Nick and Gatsby kiss. Literally everything about the story is the same, except for a single paragraph inserted between pre-existing paragraphs where Nick and Gatsby kiss.

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