After moving to Long Island, Nick Carraway finds himself next door to Jay Gatsby. Gatsby with his overwhelming mansion holds numerous extravagant party's that are well known all over long island. But who is Mr Gatsby?
Everyone seems to know his name but each person has heard a different story about him. They say he killed a man. Perhaps, he got all his riches through crime. But what's his real story?
Picking this up and not particularly feeling excited to read it, as I already knew the plot because of the film, it felt like a whole new story as I flicked through this fabulous book. Of course I knew that the books are usually better than the film versions but I really felt I got to know each individual who were so elegantly given life through this book. This book lets you make your own opinion on each character and it's not all black and white with baddies and goodies as each of them has multiple flaws which make them all the more interesting.
However at times the descriptions got to me a bit as they were all ridiculously long and used many words I'd never even heard of. For example a description might be half a page long just to describe a car.
To conclude I recommend everyone and anyone to read this novel and build up your own opinion on each of the characters but to truly savour all the wonderful moments in this book I would only read it if you were 13+.
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