Someone has come up with a "middle grade" version of The Great Gatsby. You probably wouldn't want your kid to read it and you sure as hell don't want to read it.
This is Roger Ebert's take on this hideosity. Roger's Ebert's Blog on Great Gatsby dumb down
I don't know what things are coming to, she said.
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