The annotated version made me eat my words about classics

I always thought footnotes were lazy cheating until our club did The Great Gatsby with the Norton edition last month. The history notes on prohibition and the parties in chapter 3 finally made the story click for me. Anyone else changed their mind after trying an annotated copy?

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felixlee1mo ago

Same thing happened to me with Moby Dick, those notes saved my sanity.

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