The Great Gatsby

This was a thoroughly enjoyable read. Before this, I made my way through Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise which I, admittedly, found to be a tad slow. Regardless, I found both books to be filled with joyous prose and beautiful stories. For me this book embodies the 1920's jazz-era - a time where morals and direction were second-class citizens to the collective mind-set of the population; where your crew and the parties you frequented defined you as a being

Nick Carraway serves as a mild-mannered yet internally confused narrator, who constructs marvellous opinions and insights into his endeavours with enigmatic neighbour-turned-host Jay Gatsby. The way Fitzgerald constructs scenery and underlying tension between narratives is what makes this book so amazing. This is a classic and should definitely be read at some stage in your life. It isn't that long...so you have no excuse.