Review - The Great Gatsby

[wilderthan]

I'm pretty glad The Great Gatsby was short, because I didn't really care for it. I didn't hate it, I just didn't fall madly in love with it or anything. It was okay. Nothing better. I know it's a classic and I should probably sit having deep thinky thoughts about it, but it didn't really inspire me to do so. I didn't like the characters, and while the writing is clear and easy to read and pretty good prose, there's nothing that set things on fire for me, either. It seems to be mostly about rich people wasting time and money for ridiculous reasons. I don't feel for the characters in it and I can't really understand why people give it five star reviews and insist it must be read.

I just feel so... ambivalent about it.

Comments

[calliopepurple.livejournal.com]

That's...pretty much the way I thought of it at first. I don't love it, but I like it better than I used it.

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

A short novel, best viewed as a capsule view of the 1920s in the U.S., IMO. Good for that reason, but it does tend to become a little dated.