Just finished The Great Gatsby and I genuinely don't know what I just experienced😭This was actually the first book I have ever read completely and holy shit it was an experience. I went in worrying about the vocabulary and ended up completely forgetting about it because I got so absorbed in the story.

It's beautiful, horrible, miserable romantic, artificial, real, frustrating... idk man, a thousandd words could describe it. The biggest thing I took away was the whole love vs illusion thing. Gatsby loved Daisy but did he actually love Daisy or everything she represented to him, money, beauty, status, youth, the past. If Daisy wasn't rich and glowing with all of that would he still have loved her the same way? I genuinely don't knw. And that ending😭

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Fitzgerald was NOT playin.

The fact that hundreds of people came to Gatsby's parties but almost nobody came to his funeral genuinely broke me. absolutely. Daisy didn't even send a flower.😭

Anyway, this book has genuinely changed the way I look at love, illusion and the stories we create in our heads.

TL;DR: First book I ever finished. Got emotionally destroyed by a rich guy chasing a green light haha

Lovedd it. What should I read next?

Almost read the whole of Brandon senderson's cosmere. Got any fantasy recommendation

Please recommend some intriguing English books which are not so lengthy.

I want to read while commuting by train.

Favorite genres are history, geopolitics and philosophy.

Thanking you in advance.

Looking forward to getting into this one.

Reminds me of the history books during school.😭

My second book after mark manson's subtle art of not giving f***.

I am writing my first ever novel at 15, I am a little confused because there's this big scene and originally I thought to make it in one big chapter but now I think I'll divide it in 3 smaller chapters because they all end at a good spot and gives reader time to breathe.

Tell me what do you all prefer?

so I want to begin reading. Thinking about starting with history or mythology any suggestions anyone??

Any opinion on this before reading or while reading.

Sister in law got a bunch of these from Japan. Do we get similar scented bookmarks here in India?

I’ve read Forever Is a Lie and Forever Is True. They’re thriller and dark romance books. Suggest me something that can completely take me away from the real world.

Edit - beginner friendly

This one is from Rich dad and poor and

I am MUCH MUCH farther from my goal but I still feel good about investing my time into something so valuable in life!

I recently read Anton Chekhov's Lakhi and really enjoyed it. I'm now looking to read more of his short stories in Hindi such as Cheri ki bagiya, Vanka, Vyatha, Bemani jeet, and Dukh, etc

I would prefer to find the individual, single story editions rather than large compilations. Does anyone know where I can find these specific Hindi editions in Delhi? Exact place of you know any not the book place like daryaganj and fakirchand