Book Review: The Great Gatsby

This book is on every list of favorite books, and every list of the 100 books you must read before you die. Every high school student or first-year college student has read it. So, when I say I didn’t think much of it, I’m treading on tenuous frozen water.

First I’ll say what I did like about the book. The prose is excellent. Lots of wonderful descriptions. But that’s it. For example:

He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grot...