On The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald . My favorite book of all time.

  When I think of some of my favorite books The Great Gatsby is always top of the list. F Scott Fitzgerald's mad cap jag through roaring 20'S New York trendy scene of lavish parties, forbidden love and bathtub gin. I've read the book several times and can burn through it in just a few hours (it's short) It's laugh out loud funny in spots yet tragic in others. Fitzgerald's prose boarder on poetry and it's a great time capsule of a very short lived scene in American history that was confined to a small in crowd (white folks with money) of only a few cities in the North. I've never seen so much as one movie version of the book and I never will. There's no way Fitzgerald's style could be translated onto the screen and all I'll get out of it is pissed off for wasting my time on another great book Hollywood ruined by trying to make a movie out of it. I've never read another one of Fitzgerald's books either. I know it'll pale to Gatsby and I want to remember Fitzgerald that way. If I could fit my a*s into a time machine roaring 20's New York would be my first destination. I'd get liquored up on illegal hooch (and possibly go blind) at a speakeasy in Harlem, dance to the crazy Jazz sound of the day and make it with a flapper chick. Awesome. 

Reviews

[Rita L. Sev]

Read it in high school, but not since. I will have to put it on my list - each summer I read a classic that either I have not read before, or I read too long ago to remember. Your endorsement is enough for me... you have given this teacher some homework, Mark, and I am grateful!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Rita. I like your new picture

[Tate Morgan]

My great great grandmother was a rum runner at that time and told me about it. Sounds like a damn good time

[Baby Ricochet]

Awesome. Thanks for stopping by Tate.

[Lina Grey]

I can now proudly say that I have read this book, and I love it. I'd been meaning to for years, but it kept getting pushed aside, and now we've just finished a unit on it in school. It's definitely one of my favorites. Thank for sharing it, this is a great tribute to a great book :) And of course, it's a rule: never see the movie of your favorite book. You'll always be disappointed.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you lina. It's good to hear from you.

[Lina Grey]

Good to be back :) life caught up to me, but I hope I can get back on here regularly soon

[Vidya Bacchus]

That is true some books are so beloved I can never watch them in movie form.They will spoil the magic and as you say piss me off.A very nice tribute to your much loved book.:)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Vidya

[Vidya Bacchus]

You are welcome:)

[Marie]

Baby R., if you love the book so much, you should have spelled the title right.

[Baby Ricochet]

Oh Crap ///////

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you I fixed it. My southern drawl always says Gatsby with a P sound for some reason

[Pryde Foltz]

Don't feel bad. My story Gutter Dog in part wrote to honour Hemingway … guess which name I spelled wrong. Oh and my first essay submit for my Theatre of History class … yep, you guess it … Shakespeare, which I somehow got into my twenty-year-old mind was spelled Shakespheare. Thank you God for spellcheck. I enjoyed your commentary, baby.

[Pryde Foltz]

But I prefer Under the Volcano for a drinking book. Gatsby is a bit of a sap. ;)

[Baby Ricochet]

Under the volcano ey? I'll have to check that out. I always blame my southern heritage for anything stupid I do. People expect southerners to be a rubes and hicks and I don't want to disappoint them

[Pryde Foltz]

Yeah like Tenesse Williams, Harper Lee, Mitchell, Faulkner, Maya Angelou, and Twain:)

[Baby Ricochet]

Yeah, I know. It's to bad most people see shows like duck dynasty, swamp people and honey boo boo and think that's all southern pe

[Baby Ricochet]

Southern people. It's bloody embarrassing.

[Pryde Foltz]

I have never seen any those shows. LOL.

[Baby Ricochet]

You are missing nothing.

[Marie]

Baby R., if anyone else had mde that mistake, I would have let it go, but I expect more from you.

[Cody Williams]

That was one of my favorite books I read in American Literature! Thanks for sharing it!

-CW

[Baby Ricochet]

Awesome. Thanks Cody

[Tom]

A tremendous review of what is undoubtedly a tremendous book by Fitzgerald of high society in the 20's !

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Tom