This is easily the best book I've ever been assigned to read for school, but with the others being books like Jane Eyre (one of my least favourite books of all time) and Bridge to Terabithia that's not a big accomplishment.

Easily the best part of this book is the writing, both in terms of F. Scott Fitzgerald's style and his constant use of technique, most obviously metaphors. It's an amazingly crafted book and I can't give it enough praise for that.

The characters are fine and serve their purpose but once I finish my assignment I'm going to immediately forget about them. The blandness of the characters means that the plot is only so interesting as it relies so heavily on you giving a shit about what happens to them, so the fact that I don't meant that the plot was also just fine.

Also, Nick Carraway is hella gay, thank you for coming to my ted talk.