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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2.0

I'm not counting this as a re-read because I'm not sure I consider my high school opinion as law, especially on literature. 

However, I just don't vibe with this book. It has an air of pretentiousness that I cannot get with, like the author is dangling a secret in front of us on a string like a "gotcha" or an "I know something you don't."

I do understand and appreciate both the significance of the book and the message this book sends, and I feel that modern society would be smart to remember it, but that isn't the case. If anything, they glorify the very issues that Fitzgerald so desperately tries to convey.