I've had this book lying around in my room for ages, and to be honest it was at the bottom of my never ending list of books I have that need to be read.
But then I saw the trailer for the movie and I had no idea what was going on. Not one single clue. I remembered vaguely that I owned a copy somewhere but I had no idea it was such a popular book, let alone that it was basically a classic.
Anyway I decided that I should read it cause the trailer had intrigued me, and I'm not one to argue with the classics.
And I'm glad that I did read it because I really enjoyed it, and I thought that it was really good! I also found it really easy to read, and by that I mean that the chapters just flew by really fast.
I thought that the character of Gatsby was really fascinating because you never really find out who he is, or what he did to become so amazingly rich. All you really know about him is that he really loves his sweetheart (who is married because it would just be too easy otherwise).
The story is set in the twenties, right after the first world war, and before the recession. So its smack in the middle of the jazzy "lets have fun and forget the horrors of war" age.
It's quite bittersweet if you want the truth. No one really gets what they want or what they deserve.
In any case now I'm really looking forward to the movie. Although I' a little annoyed cause all the movies I want to see are coming out during my exams. Thanks movies.
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