The Great Gatsby
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4.3 • 3.4K Ratings
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Publisher Description
Tony Award-winning actor Leslie Odom Jr., who starred in the original cast of Hamilton, breathes new life into F. Scott Fitzgerald’s entertaining Jazz Age classic.
The Roaring Twenties are in full effect in the fictional Long Island beach towns of West and East Egg when Midwesterner Nick Carraway gets caught up in the orbit of man-about-town Jay Gatsby, host of some of the wildest, most extravagant parties you could ever imagine.
The Great Gatsby is a cautionary tale of wealth and excess and a bit of a scathing takedown of celebrity culture. With his mellifluous voice and acting chops, Leslie Odom Jr. is the perfect reader. He pulls us into this timeless story of an outsider looking in—and the impossible, but uniquely human, longing to return to the past.
Customer Reviews
Would recommend
Great narration, a bit confusing and hard to keep up but honestly a great listen. Much better than I was expecting especially as an audiobook. Definitely a read you have to persevere the first chuck, and has you engaged and so committed throughout it.
Loved it.
Mesmerizing!
Odom’s narration is absolutely entrancing. He is a stellar performer and this classic is nothing short of brilliant (especially when read by such a terrific talent)!
Why is this an American classic again?
I know we all had to read this in high school, but revisiting this work as an adult was an exercise in revulsion. What is redeeming about this story? What is transcendent? What is beautiful? I would suggest absolutely nothing.
The story is filled with self-absorbed people who make selfish decisions regardless of how they affect other people and they all reap the rewards of living totally self-centered lives.
If you’re drawn back to this book because of the nostalgia of reading it in days-gone-by, save yourself the agony and skip it. It’s tripe. Absolute garbage.