I feel like this is another one of those books where you think you know the story because it's so popular and ubiquitous in pop culture, until you actually read the story. F. Scott Fitzgerald's prose is beautiful. Elegant and lovely, but never overwrought. His style is easy to read and the length of the book makes it a good starter when it comes to classics. The themes of the story are also easy to understand and digest, a tale about dreams, of making it, of nostalgia for a past that would never come back, maybe even a past that never was. It's a good story, not too deep thematically (the themes are fairly easy to understand and they're ever-present even on a surface level) but never shallow.

Overall, I'm glad I finally read this book and I take it as a good introduction to the rest of Fitzgerald's work.