The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A great book! The Great Gatsby, was really quite ahead of its time. Fitzgerald gives a wonderful insight into the characters with his amazing imagery. This book will make you love the 1920's era if you don't already. This book left an great impact on me as a reader and I would definitely read it again.

In short, The Great Gatsby book is far superior to the movie although the movie does not let the book down. The creation of worlds in the novel is done in such a way that one is unable to distinguish if it’s the real world or Gatsby’s façade and that’s the beauty of Fitzgerald’s writing and the beauty in reading the Great Gatsby, but I think one thing everyone can agree on is that Gatsby deserved better, and it was not all a lie. Definitely worth the read.

It's easy to see why this book became as revered as it did, with it's tragic tale of materialism, wealth and lust and idealism as opposed to real love, but sometimes even for the time I feel as though it comes off slightly pretentious, and it has become difficult to read as time has passed. But for the academic or more traditional reader it is an essential education in classic literature

The great gatsby was written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is the story of a young rich man, Jay Gatsby who is hopelessly in love with a married woman Daisy Buchanan a wealthy socialite from Louisville, Kentucky who resides in the fashionable town of East Egg on Long Island and is the cousin of the Narrator, Nick. The novel includes the classic love triangle that ends tragically. I highly recommend this book as I absolutely enjoyed every page of it.