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Originally Posted by Frownland
About 18 episodes in on my second viewing and while I really liked it before, it might be a top five show now.
Also rewatching The Sopranos and I'm not sure how unpopular this is, but it's up there with The Great Gatsby as one of the best meditations on the American dream out there.
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Have you read
The Adventures of Augie March?
The Sopranos has the most incredible writing except for dream sequences - which like everywhere else they’ve ever been tried, suck.
Interesting comparison to
The Great Gatsby. This is probably a very minority opinion but I think the novel would be much better if the character, George, was far more fleshed out. Compared to the character with the sporting goods store in
The Sopranos who gets wiped out by gambling debts or even the chef, Artie, - those are great relatable working class characters who suffer - better than anything in Gatsby by far. And the way the Sopranos family are really just upper middle class - it’s so ****ing brilliant.
But Augie March as a novel is flawless.