Tisk Tisk Tom

WARNING! I will be talking about parts of The Great Gatsby so if you have not started reading it yet , you may want to hold off on reading this post.

I am still in the beginning of the book, and I have to  give Tom a stern tisk tisk.  I find it extremely odd that he wants Nick to meet his mistress. Tom knows that Nick and his wife, Daisy are friends so I find it odd that he would want to make things more complicated for everyone by getting Nick, a family friend, somewhat involved. I do not remember if there is a reason for what went wrong with their relationship mentioned, so I am curious to keep reading to try and find out.  They seem to have a pretty good life, so I find that it would be odd that Tom just get up and leave Daisy.  I have to keep reading to try and find out what went wrong!

The Great Gatsby

I purchased my copy of The Great Gatsby yesterday and started reading it that night.  I love that I have already read it, so when I read it now hopefully I will catch something new or something that I have forgotten about!  I love this time era.  I love how exciting things were back then.  Today things don't seem to be all too exciting.  Everything was fancy and about status then, now, not so much.  I mean, we have the celebrities, but I don't seem them having status like what people hold in this book.  I think if I could go back in time, I would like to go back to this era.  Things would be new and exciting, at least for a little bit. 

Books to movies

So I was out shopping today and I went to Blockbuster because the one by Walmart is going out of business and have super cheap movies on sale, some for $.99 hurry and go get some, and I got The Road and The Kite Runner.  Both of these are books, and I haven't read The Kite Runner yet  but I have read The Road and I loved it, I'm a little hesitant to watch it in case it is a let down.  I feel like a lot of the books that get turned into movies just do not do the books justice.  If I watch the  movie before the book, I feel like I'm stuck with the movie in my head than what the book actually allows my mind to create.  Has anyone seen a movie that was also a book and felt that it was pretty much spot on?

So, I'm editing this a day later. I just finished watching The Road.  It was a pretty good movie.  It has been a while since I have read the book but I did notice that the movie did leave out a few things.  The movie did help you actually put yourself in their situation, but I felt like if you read the book you are able to understand a lot more.  On a scale of 1-10 of it being spot on with the book, I would have to give it like a 7.5. Not too bad I suppose.