The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

BATB score: 6/10 💰💰💰

Historical literary art piece, written in 1925 (for sure there would be a 100th year anniversary for this book), four movie adaptions include 2013 iMDb 7.2 featuring Leonardo DiCaprio

Best to: have a keen curiosity of what the hype was really about for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book

Best for: aren’t we all chasing richness and fame for someone to acknowledge and praise our golden accomplishments? aren’t the big mansion for hosting the big parties to show-off? doesn’t money gain its value only when the envy rolls in?

Best as: book appreciation exercise - you don’t really have to read it, I was just a curious cat

BATB lingering thought: so the girl of his dream didn’t choose him because he was poor; now he is epic rich and wants her back, all his efforts just for her to see, and she didn’t even turn up at his funeral #yikes

Best quote: “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”