You know, I was going to argue with you that it's much more than a weekend read, but no, you're right.

47,0000 words at ~250 words/min is 188 minutes, or just over 3 hours.

I think because it took us weeks to read in high school, that I have this sense that its a huge dense book.

The recent burst of Gatsby content is almost surely due to its publication date (April 10, 1925).

I wonder whether it also has something to do with the use of its phrase "careless people" as the title of a currently-famous book about how awful Meta's senior management is.

I know this is kinda tone deaf to ask in a section about books, but: how was the Leonardo DiCaprio modern adaption? I read the book and was well out of college when it premiered, but I never had much interest in seeing it at the time. Does it do the book justice, or at least the much much older adaptation?

i personally enjoyed both and felt they added color in their own way. the point of the story is that it touches on deep feelings ; i personally felt dicaprio did a really good job of exuding the dodgy side of gatsby superimposed on the vulnerable human within but then that’s probably mostly in the eye of the beholder.

judging from my teenage daughter’s reactions to film in general, i’d guess a younger audience would prefer the newer film because it would feel to be of higher production value with better fit and finish.