F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Pros: Delightful prose, meticulous metaphor, captivating characters, ingenius plot.
Cons: None really come to mind.

When you’re in high school, they make you read all kinds of icky stuff that you really don’t want to read. This is what my daughter tells me anyway. She can’t understand why they make you read the books they do, and just how am I going ...

Pros: insightful look at the flapper era; moody, ghostly atmosphere; memorable, poignant
Cons: 1920's words; description sometimes sounds old; lack of commas

Barely here a week I decided to review the quintessential American novel, The Great Gatsby, one of the most read, studied and loved books by an American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald by name. Here is the short review, with mixed ratings given to ...

Pros: Exceptional prose, amazing diction, profound moral
Cons: none

I live about 20 minutes from East Egg (Manhasset) and 25 minutes from West Egg (Great Neck). No, really. The two Long Island communities are just up the expressway from my house. And the two towns just happen to the be the setting for a classic that is ...

Pros: One of the great 20th century novels
Cons: None

The Great Gatsby is the classic novel about the American Dream, one of the great novels of the 20th Century as it captures perfectly the culture and mindset of the dominant power of that century. It was first published in 1925 during the first ...

Pros: Very strong flavor of the 1920s, especially among the big city types, and...well...Gatsby!
Cons: This book doesn't reflect on Great Plains life of the 20's.

I recently have read Great Gatsby in my Intro to Fiction class. It is a timeless classic about love, materialism, adultery and chasing the American Dream. It was written in 1925, but set in 1922. You can see the materialistic attitudes of America in ...

Pros: Fitzgerald's meticulously crafted, seemingly timeless literary masterpiece is near flawless
Cons: Some of the symbolism is laid on pretty thick

One of the most underrated attributes of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age novel The Great Gatsby is how the seemingly minute details and descriptions of places and characters richly enhance the meaning and purpose of the novel. First of all,...

Pros: A wonderful, beautiful work
Cons: None

The Great Gatsby is a beautifully written book. Perhaps its greatest strength lies in the sheer magic of the writing. Fitzgerald spins sentences of such wonder, such clarity and honesty, that we are left to do nothing else but shake our head in ...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

Literary classics are incredible to read but nearly impossible to review without feeling influenced by the many previous authorities of literature who have dissected, corrected, respected and reflected upon the writing. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott ...

Pros: Beautiful symbolism.
Cons: May not catch your interest to it's full capacity until the 7th chapter.

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Pros: Brilliant symbolism, keen observation of 1920's culture
Cons: None

Note: "The Great Gatsby" was originally supposed to be titled "Under the Red, White, and Blue."

My feelings on Fitzgerald's classic and on the American dream:

"No-Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby,...

Pros: Exquisite prose, classic story of morality
Cons: Not many other books measure up to this one

Every few years I re-read "The Great Gatsby" for the sheer joy of reading the finest novel written in the 20th century.

Fitzgerald was a mere 30 years old when he wrote this masterpiece. Reviewers over the years said they were certain that...

Pros: A beautifully crafted story of longing, lost love and morality
Cons: None - it was Fitzgerald's best work

Nick Carraway, a solid Midwesterner, non-judgmental and yet deeply moral, is the character in fictional American literature with whom I most identify. Nick is an ordinary but intelligent young man who finds himself in the most extraordinary of...

Pros: Excellent Criticism of the Corrupt 1920s
Cons: nothing

The 1920s were a time of change. People were full of different ideas and values. However, some of these new values and ideas were corrupt ones. The values that had once made America great were changing into materialistic values. F. Scott Fitzgerald...

Pros: a good depiction of the American dream
Cons: can be slow sometimes

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In the GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American dream and its demise are illustrated. It is illustrated through: Jay Gatsby, who believes by obtaining wealth he can fulfill his...

Pros: the book is pure magic
Cons: over too soon

Perhaps no novel captures the American mood and times of the 1920's more than "The Great Gatsby" .
The book describes a summer at Long Island as told by Nick, the writer and poorer cousin of Daisy who is the obsessive love of Nick's...