Daisy's Riposte: The Great Gatsby by Daisy F Buchanan

by Daisy F. Buchanan

A new edition for schools of this award-winning book club favorite. Daisy Buchanan tells her side of The Great Gatsby story. Once famously described as ‘a woman who gives birth to a child, cheats on her husband, kills another person, and allows Gatsby to take the blame for her mistake,’ Daisy wants to set the record straight. In her very witty account of events, she doesn’t hold back, reserves a particular animosity for her cousin Nick, and has many scores to settle...

127 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 27, 2021

Reviews

[n]

Daisy my love. Daisy my heart. Gatsby and nick can kiss my ass I love this book

Edit. Just reread this. I love. Yes. Thank you

[Paul Humber]

Very witty, hugely enjoyable. In many ways more accessible and relatable than the original book; Daisy takes us through the story of The Great Gatsby from her perspective. We get details of her marriage to Tom and her relationship with Jay Gatsby and Jordan, through to the death of Myrtle Wilson and beyond, and throughout Daisy shows herself to be very shrewd about those around her; having a sharp eye for what was funny. I particularly enjoyed the details of the ‘roaring’ parties she went to.
The book is, in turns, coy and clear about its origins. F Scott Fitzgerald originally wrote a longer manuscript than the final book published, and this, along with his other writings around that time is used to furnish the background details about Daisy’s life. I’d always wondered why Daisy said, ‘I’ll be the man smoking two cigarettes.’ Well now we know. I always wondered why it was so important to Gatsby for Daisy to specifically say she had never loved Tom; it always struck me as more that a warped romanticism, and now we know. But it’s more than that; it’s an enjoyable romp of a book. I read it in one sitting; two, if you factor in that I had to eat.
I would thoroughly recommend this to anyone who loves Fitzgerald and Gatsby but also to people who are immune to his charms and just want a fun, well-written interesting read.

[Anne Earney]

Very odd Gatsby retelling. FROM Daisy's perspective, obviously, but as if she's telling the story herself in "this is how it really happened" a rebuttal of Nick's story. The book has what should be footnotes, but they're lumped together at the end of each chapter and not linked to the relevant place in the story, so while interesting they completely took me out of the story. Some chapters, especially towards the end, were extremely short and I had no idea why. Writing was clunky. At the very end, there's an interview with the "editor," who has got to be the actual writer, most of which I didn't read. Just very odd. I would have skipped this one but I accidentally paid for another month of Kindle Unlimited and it was on there, so it felt free. But I'm not convinced it was worth the price of my time.