Supremely underwhelmed. 
 So this is the Great American Novel? The second best of the 20th century, as per the Modern Library? The underhanded warning that the American Dream should have come with in the 1920s? 
 How is Gatsby 'Great' - can someone tell me that? 
 Intricacy...that's the word they use for this novel. 'Intricacy of pattern': is what F. Scott desired for it. Well, it is intricately patterned, right from the level of the sentence to that of the plot. But where is that galactic greatness, that aroma of a Classic, of something canonical? 
 Is it a case where the biography of the book sustains its greatness, not any quality inherent in the book? Are Americans just stupidly crazy about it? 
 How dry is a central character whose only notable assertion is the phrase 'old sport,' one that he quite non-intricately employs while communicating with other specimens of the same sex? 
 (I trust the Le Monde's list better now, with Lolita placed above Ulysses, and the formality of Gatsby allowed only at #46). 
 === Please read Lolita again if you're looking for the intricately patterned Great American Novel. Gatsby makes even Humbert Humbert look great. ===