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| The Great Gatsby CD | 
| Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Creator: Tim Robbins
Publisher: Caedmon
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $9.96
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 135470
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 6
Pages: 7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0060098910
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780060098919
ASIN: 0060098910
Publication Date: October 1, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 The Great Gatsby as performed by the cast of SNL August 1, 2008
It had been 40 years since I had read the Great Gatsby and I had an 8 hour drive, so I took this edition out of the library. If anything can make an 8 hour drive seem even more interminable, this is it. Tim Robbins' rendition is simply terrible. Each character other than the narrator, Nick Carraway, is a caricature as might be performed by a high school drama class or perhaps John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner in a spoof of the novel. Find another audio version or read the book - if you listen to this version you will certainly be bored and irritated.
 Great narration overall, but some pretty bad spots... May 3, 2008
Ok, first off, The Great Gatsby is a great book that somehow reached me back in high school when I loved it even though I was forced to read it... That is indeed a rarity, and is why I've read it quite a few times since then.. I even used Monarch/Cliff notes with this book -- for its intended purpose, and not just to get enough information, so I can pass a test... So the book is great, but you should all know that by now..
Tim Robbins' narration is for the most part, beautifully done... His characterization of Nick Carraway is so captivating and I can really get into the story when Nick is speaking.. The only problem is that Mr. Robbins kinda softens his voice where you have to raise the volume... Which causes some problems when he switches characters - especially to Tom Buchanan, whom Mr Robbins YELLS his lines, causing me to quickly reach for the volume knob in the car...
Theres quite a few characters in this book, and I think Mr. Robbins just ran out of voices.. Some of his characterizations, particularly women, are HORRIBLE. I'll cut him some slack since he's a guy, but if you want to hear the worst stereotypical Long Island (and Southern) female voices, he's nailed it..
Don't let this ruin it for you though, his narration otherwise is one of the best I've heard yet...
 Enchanting.... December 24, 2007
This is a wonderful reading of the Great AMerican Novella...."The Great Gatsby" , includes exerts from F.Scotts correspondence with potential publishers and friends...reveals his enormous ego, as well as his insecurity and need for public adoration of this work.
I would suggest this as "required" listening for all high school and above students and human beings. I feel, that if we all read, or listened, to "the Great Gatsby", we would see what true good story telling is, and maybe about half of the "crap" at the movies would go away!
received damaged July 29, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
received damaged and returned. amazon did not have another copy to send. the $5.00 creidit was mostly offset by my being sharged for shipping. a very unsatisfactory experience
 Very poor audio rendition June 19, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have listened to only a few tracks of this book-on-CD, and maybe I should wait for a while before posting a review, but here is what I can already say. First, while Scott Fitzgerald is clearly a great writer, he writes about characters who are so far from who I am and I care about that I wonder if I will ever really like his novels. I have read "This side of paradise" before listening to this one, and found it equally uninteresting. Almost everyone seems to be an obnoxious and spoiled character. There is way too much aristocracy, money and privilege, and I find all characters rather fake. BUT, what is worse about this CD is... Tim Robbins. He reads mostly with an annoyingly low, dreamy voice, playing all women with a terrible fake-feminine voice which really seems to come from a drag queen. I will never understand why so many men have to read women's voices as if words were spoken by a drag queen. Overall, this is a pretty bad audio book.
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