Maybe it was because I read it immediately after seeing (and loving) the movie. Which, I am deeply ashamed at myself for even having taken so long to pick up this book in the first place. And let's not mention that I went and watched the movie first to motivate myself to read it. I just didn't expect to be so WOWED. But I was. And I'm in love with this book. And the movie. And the time period and fashions. Just... wow. I don't know what to really say. 
 How can a book be so short and so amazingly full of a story at the same time like that? Really? I pick up these books that will take a better part of nearly two hundred pages before getting to the depth with no satisfying conclusion to be near yet, but this just hands it all to you in barely two hundred. I often have a hard time finding gems like this for me. 
 Book- Check. 
 Movie- Check. 
 Both to be favorites for a long time. 
 (P.S. Now that I have read the book, they couldn't have picked a better Gatsby with Leo. Of course I love him and I'm probably biased. He was brilliant. I couldn't imagine anyone else.)