The Great Gatsby

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Summary: A WONDERFUL BOOK
Review: I was fourteen years old when I first read this book and I loved it.A few weeks ago when I was feeling down and depressed I read it again and for some odd reason I hated it. I suppose it was the way I was feeling but right afterwards i wrote a very negative review for this book which I would now like to take back. A few days ago i decided to read the book once again because I was wondering why I had been so bored and depressed by that second reading. I read it again and was soon discovering my original enjoyment of the story. I suppose it was just typical teenage moodiness. It is a great story, and I especially like the descriptive bits, like where it describes Daisy and the tennis player(I cant remember her name at this second) as floating in white dresses on the coach. Gatsbys parties and the drunken party at Toms mistress's house are wonderful. The characters are very true to life and I loved the mysteriousness of Gatsby. This is a very sad but good book and I fully recommend it.

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Summary: I didn't like it!
Review: This book was just so bland. So vanilla. this book had nothing of any importance to me what so ever. I had no emotional ties to the characters and the whole thing just made me yawn!

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Summary: what is up with all the symbols..eyes, yellow, etc.
Review: This book totally confuses me i'm supposed to do an art project on it and i have no idea what to do. The book had so many drags, why did the author use his symbols. What happened really at the end? And can some one give me an art project to do/

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Summary: wow
Review: i read the great gatsby and i was impressed. i don't really know what to say about it. it was an excellent book. it is definately required reading

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Summary: Well written, unimaginative
Review: While the book's story was somewhat predictable (as it uses an overplayed and tired theme), Fitzgerald's lyricism in description is astounding. If for no other reason, read this book to find out how well-constructed and beautiful a literary description can be.

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Summary: I TRULY ENJOYED THIS BOOK!
Review: I MUST SAY WHEN MY ENGLISH TEACHER GAVE US THREE WEEKS TO READ THIS BOOK I WAS NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO IT, BUT EACH CHAPTER I READ BECAME MORE AND MORE INTERESTING TO ME. I TRULY ENJOYED THIS BOOK AND WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYONE!

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Summary: Alot better than the majority of the required reading
Review: I recently read this book for my 11th grade Honors English class. I was only assigned to read up to page 30 but I just kept on reading. This is truly a classic piece of American literature. Not only is the book enjoyable, it is easy to read. This book shapes the Jazz Age as it tells a tale of lives of the people in it. F. Scott Fitzgerald also throws in a few autobiographical notes as well. This is a wonderful book.

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Summary: Differnt; definitly a good book
Review: The Great Gadsby's twisted plot and iteresting charcters make a great book. I loved the way gadsby makes plans through the narrater and the "party" ware the narrater is getting drunk with his friends in their appartment. It's a good book

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Summary: the 20th century wouldn't be complete without it!
Review: Sometimes when I am reading a book I think, come on, you can read a bit more - it could be worthwhile - but when I am reading a good book I think' I must get to the end as soon as possibleThis was the case with Gatsy -

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Summary: The characters' lives are used as a reflection of the 1920s.
Review: Through "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald proved that if you only live life for today you won't be able to cope with tomorrow. The book went extremely slow paced in the beginning until I reached 40 pages from the end of it. Fitzgerald did a great job getting the reader into the story. He used so much description and image word choice that I kept half interested. As soon as you get to that one point in the book, it just moves so fast that you can barely keep track of everything happening even. The story is a total depiction of the 1920s with the unsuccessful and unfaithful relationships, the partying that went on constantly, and the unexpected consequences of living life for today. The characters only did what they wanted to make that day the best it could be. They never once thought of what would and/or could have happened to them. They didn't think there was anything wrong with what they were doing. People living in the 1920s didn't believe anything would go wrong in their society, but just look what happened. Can you say, "DEPRESSION?" Depression is not exactly the word I would use to describe what happened to Fitzgerald's characters in "The Great Gatsby" after their lives backfired. It would make more sense to use a word such as ---- suppression!