I fully admit that calling this story a book is a stretch and that i read it partly to pad my book count. But it was something i wanted to read anyway, so i'm counting it. 
 This story is truly so short that it's hardly a story. It's more of a thought experiment, but with a little bit of that beautiful Fitzgerald style embellishing it. It's not as perfectly worded as Gatsby, but it's really interesting to see that voice developing. 
 I saw the movie a few years back and can't remember it terribly well, but they definitely added liberally to the story and changed things about it. It's hardly the same story. And why the movie chose to depict Button at the beginning and end of his life as a wrinkly child is perplexing. In the story he is simply born as a 5'8" 70-year-old man (no details given), and dies as a normal-looking infant. Fantastic, sure, but the whole concept is fantastic, so why not? 
 I thought it was smart that even Button's mind starts old and grows younger. He's not a young man trapped in an old body, he's just an old man getting younger. It made me think, and i love that. If only Fitzgerald had written more fantasy...