Concluding Response: The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald certainly doesn't feed it to you on a spoon - the reader has to do a lot of digging between the lines - making an overall air of mystery. Plot-changing events happen so quickly; you might blink and miss them. If I hadn't seen the film first (whoops) it would have been very unpredictable. I'm going to say it again: there is an astonishing quantity of content concentrated into only 170 pages of text! I also found the setting and time period fascinating - I've never read anything of that time. Thoroughly enjoyed it - just as much as the film, if not even more so! It's crying out for a prequel (maybe there is one (I'm not sure)). 
Definitely recommend (it's an American classic after all) but READ THE BOOK FIRST!!!

Happy reading, Kate x

P.S: Perhaps, I might look into reading another of his books - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button?