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Summary: Bizarre and not terribly interesting
Review: One of the better "classics" that I have read, and I have read quite a few, but still not a very enthralling book.
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Summary: The Incredibly Great Gatsby
Review: All I have to say about this book is that it is incredibly heartbreaking, romantic, and beautiful. F. Scott has a way with words like no other and you will want to read it over and over again.
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Summary: Portrait in time
Review: This is one of the best classics American Literature has to offer. Fitzgerald has painted a telling portrait of a time and a class of people. His portrait is so accurate and suble, however, that it was completely misunderstood upon publication; now it is considered Fitzgerald's masterpiece. This novel offers a look at the luxerious and shallow lifestyle of the aristocracy during "the lost generation."
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Summary: Cromulus recommends this book
Review: Cromulus recommends this book highly. You must read this book. Reading this book pleases Cromulus. You will anger Cromulus if you do not read this book.
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Summary: I even read it voluntarily
Review: First had to read this as a school assignment, but years later I pulled it off the shelf and read it on my own free will. Considering how little is revealed about Gatsby, he is a truly fascinating character. The Buchanans are the really interesting people in this story. Another key point - the book is not very long.
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Summary: ~*~The Great Gatsby~*~
Review: I recently have had some time to sit down and enjoy the book "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby, a rich man who is very into money, faces many tasks during this 1920's Jazz Age that he lives in. He is in love with a beautiful woman named Daisy Buchman. The two if them end up confessing their true love for each other. This book comes across a lot danger, suspense, love, and friendship scenes. It was a very interesting book that kept my interest all throughout the book, although the start of it was a little bit boring. I would recommend it to people that have read his past novels and to people above the age of 13 or 14 because some concepts are harder to grasp.
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Summary: A wonderful book
Review: This is simply the most beautiful book I've ever read, I practically have it memorized. Hopefully you all will enjoy it too. Thanks~
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Summary: America in a nutshell
Review: Fitzgerald is mainly known as a jazz age writer, as an observer of the flappers and his work is considered to be stuck in the past. Nothing could be further from the truth. This novel captures the American spirit in all its confused idealism, its expansive dreaming and scheming, the corruption in its childlike innocence and its penchant for pressing into the future without examining the past. The old money and its callous cop-out policies are still practised by the ones who can buy second chances as symbolized by the established Buchanans while neurotic upstart Gatsby is the forerunner of every motivated small town boy who makes it against the odds and finds out that although everything is for sale, including a brand new identity , all the power and all the glitz can't buy back the wasted youth or the heart of the ones who had their finger on the pulse of opportunity and rationale. The closer Gatsby gets to his dream the more remote its core becomes;not unlike an emotional fata morgana. Nick Carraway is the chronicler of this tragedy of illusion and leaves the wiser for having the veil lifted and seeing nothing more than a poor boy's broken heart in the swimmingpool of vodka and blood. The Wilsons from the wrong side of the track are a brilliant signifier of how the priviledged amuse themselves with the hardscabble folks for diversion but can effort to cut them at a moment's notice. Having means won't buy you love or real friends but it will buy you a clean slate again and again until you run out of real estate. Gatsby's real estate is his heart's yearning so he dies desolate because he bought the motivational speech and was never told that the new continent and all its attentant promises might make room for a new brand of hero but it can't change the human heart.
A classic in the best sense of the word. A Greek myth remade to fit the size of the new world.
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Summary: Nick Carraway
Review: Most reviews of this book talk of nothing but the love affair of Daisy and Jay Gatsby. They never speak of the off balance, really modern relationship of Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker. Carraway is by far the character to watch, and the one that makes this book interesting. His constantly changing relationship to Gatsby is strictly human. Reading this book from the twenties is like reading a book from the nineties. "The Great Gatsby" was far ahead of its time, and so was Nick Carraway and the relationships flooded throughout the book.The gossip aspect is very modern as well. Everyone at Gatsby's parties follow him around because of mystery. And that's what Jay Gatsby is about. Mystery. Even when the book is over, you never fully understand him. Overall, a great book, but not the best ever.
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Summary: Dazzling!!!! You Don't Want To Miss This One!!!
Review: This is a quality Classic, full of enchantment, and taking us back to the twenties just after the war. I took my time and savoured every word as it flowed along with a mysterious edge, causing me to be somewhat unsure of where you I was actually heading next. Narrated by Nick Carraway who had been anxious to come out to the East (New York) after spending a rather dull childhood in the Midwest, I found Carraway a very interesting person. A bit of a schemer sometimes; one is never sure how he really feels about Jay. Jay Gatsby is the enigma in this story; a rather poor officer who before he goes to war falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Daisy Fay from Louisville. But what happens after the war??? The Great Gatsby having heard that his lovely Daisy has tied the knot with the uncouth, ill-mannered and filthy rich Tom Buchanan, goes to great measures to become wealthy too.... by all means. When he accomplishes this, he buys an elaborate house not far from the Buchanans where he hosts glittering and five star parties most weekends; with the hope that Daisy will eventually turn up. You will be entertained and shocked by the things Jay Gatsby does all in the name of love. His parties filled with lots of celebrities and Hollywood people do nothing to assuage his troubled and lonely soul. I felt his pain in this book and his isolation which you will experience too when you read this book. This is one of the best Classics on the market, even more so now that it has been updated. I highly recommend this book and can't wait to get my hands on F. Scott Fitzgerald's other updated ones; The Beautiful and The Dammed and Tender Is The Night. Fitzgerald is a boss and oh; the cover is soooo beautiful.
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