Sage Iverson
Took a chapter or two to hook me, but The Great Gatsby won me over by the halfway point.
The Great Gatsby
Young AdultGraphic NovelClassic Literature
1920
4.15(21 ratings)
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. \--first edition jacket --- Also contained in: - [The Fitzgerald Reader](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468551W/The_Fitzgerald_Reader) - [Three Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468557W)
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Priya Carter
Could not put The Great Gatsby down. F. Scott Fitzgerald writes with a confidence that pulls you straight into the story.
Rowan Iverson
The Great Gatsby is the kind of book you press into people's hands and say just trust me.
Kofi Dubois
Enjoyed The Great Gatsby overall - a solid, well-paced literary fiction read.
Kofi Silva
F. Scott Fitzgerald has a new fan. The Great Gatsby is exactly the kind of literary fiction I keep hoping to find.
Dakota Hughes
The Great Gatsby hit every note I wanted from a literary fiction book, and then some.
Emerson Yamada
This might be my favorite literary fiction read all year. The Great Gatsby earns every bit of its hype.
Nadia Diaz
Rare for a literary fiction book to stick with me this long after finishing. The Great Gatsby did.
Ava Thompson
The prose is gorgeous but I have never once liked a single person in this book, which I think is the point.
Theo Douglas
Short enough to read in a day, dense enough to think about for a decade. That green light still gets me.
Felix Novak
Fitzgerald wrote some of the best sentences in the English language and put them all in one very sad book about a party.