The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. In consequence I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. He didn’t say any more but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’ Recommended for absolutely everyone, as even those familiar with the novel may notice something new thanks to Hope?s nuanced (and only mildly faulty) performance.In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. He also does quite well with the party guests and the gambler Meyer Wolfsheim, faltering only by making Tom Buchanan sound a bit like a gravel-voiced truck driver. He stumbles a bit at the beginning, drawing upon the revelation that narrator Nick Carraway is a Yale man by making the narration somewhat arch, but once he settles down, Hope ably conveys Carraway?s optimistic innocence. It is a book that deserves a perfect reading, and though numerous other narrators have tried?among them Robertson Dean, Anthony Heald, Alexander Scourby, and Tim Robbins?Hope may have come closest to achieving this perfection. Canadian actor William Hope reads Naxos AudioBooks? first unabridged production of Fitzgerald?s classic novel of the Roaring Twenties.
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