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This guy is another crazy friend of mine, who’s challenging to read a book a day, and write an essay of it that day.

He’s not reading those easy books with fewer pages, but books with more than 200 pages... Man, it’s never be possible for me to read a book in just one day. What’s also unbelievable to me is that his essay is so interesting, intelligent and sometimes crazy!

His first memorable 1,000 day challenge started with "Great Gatsby" of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Right before he wrote this note, we were together at our community site for the reading session. This is a a regular event hosted by again our guru, and in the name of reading session we just eat and drink while we discuss on an assigned book. And that time, we talked about Great Gatsby, and he was also there, attending.

Here in Japan, two translated versions of Gatsby are popular, one by Haruki Murakami and one by Takashi Nozaki. So the most of participants at the session had one of them.

But surprisingly he brought 5 translated Great Gatsby, as you could also see his note above... and he read all of them,,, such a crazy reader...!

His way of expressing his impression on the book is so interesting. He picks up his past memories in his younger days and compares them with Gatsby's stories such as his neighbor gangsters splashy style in his junior-high school with Gatsby's gorgeous party people.. (My note is not so interesting as his, I know..)

He is also intellectual enough to mention the difference among those translations, and that definitely helped us, Japanese, imagine the 5 different worlds of Gatsby in 1920s.

I myself have read two translations of Murakami and Nozaki, and also the book itself of Fitzgerald, this time. I love to write a lot of impressions on this story of hot summer, but I am becoming too lazy to do so, and allow me to site the quote below as a feedback...

Word of the day:
Splashy （派手な、人目をひく、目立つ）

Quote of the day:
"Let us learn to show our friendship for man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that, my own rule is to let everything alone"
- Meyer Wolfsheim, from Great Gatsby of F. Scott Fitzgerald