
When I first read The Great Gatsby I had no idea wtf that book was about or if anything really happened. Re-read it, slowly, on my own again a year later and was blown away by all of the symbolism in the story and how much it relates to the typical American’s life by describing what the American dream really looks like and how we go back in our own pasts to attain it
It’s why I started archery! The depictions of fighting and skills are actually really pretty close to real life, I LIVED off them until I got actual instruction. Now I shoot barebow and recurve, speed shooting and competitive, and learned a lot of Ranger-y skills as my entire archery club had read the books. Genuinely life changing book for me lol