Creative-Maxim t1_je8v2ys wrote on March 30, 2023 at 7:06 AM

Read it in high school and enjoyed it. Years later read The Rum Diaries by Hunter S Thompson and I felt like it was the same writing. Turns out Hunter S Thompson often used to type out the Great Gatsby from start to finish to make himself a better writer...

Different-Carpet-159 OP t1_je9chqx wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:09 AM

Cool fact! Love HST and he had a great take on the grotesque nature of the American Dream and on mainstream American values. We can debate whether he should be counted as a commentary writer, or a fiction writer or a reporter (see a previous comment on purpose of fiction writer)