The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Deaver Brown

Some consider The Great Gatsby the greatest American novel ever written about love, dreams, business, bootlegging, Wall Street, the Midwest, and the East, as well as Yale, prep schools, the rich, and more.

F. Scott Fitzgerald followed up with Tender Is the Night, also considered equally compelling.

Public Domain (P)2020 Deaver Brown

Reading and recording are subpar

Given most of the novels are written not keeping 'audio book' in mind but for real book-reading, the reader of audio book needs to be creative about how to deliver the same value of real book-reading with an assumption that the listener listening a novel for first time. That means providing pauses in places so that listener can "catch" the context, or raising voice in certain texts to convey its importance.
Unfortunately, this audio book was read too fast (4:30 instead of typical 5 plus hours) without proper pauses, and the whole reading is more or less flat. It might be a good reading for listener who already read the book, but not for first time listener of this novel.
In addition, the piano is background is more of a distraction than providing good listening experience.

terribly read

this reader managed to mangle a extraordinary book. miss pronunciations, long pauses for no reason, and turning sentences into confusing run on sentences.

Really poor narration

One would have thought that the producers would have used a better narrator for this classic. He is unable to pronounce many words and sounds them out on occasion. For instance, he doesn’t pronounce Monaco correctly. He pauses mid sentence and doesn’t follow punctuation. This makes it very difficult to follow along. The background piano music is also very distracting. I’m glad it only cost $1!

Overpowering music

Love the book and narrator is great. However, the “background@ music is overpowering and most of the time is louder than the narrator making impossible to follow the story. Terrible execution of combining music and narrative in this particular version. I recommend getting a different audiobook version of this book that is actually possible to listen to.

Terrible

Terrible narration and the constant music in the background is too distracting. This was hard to listen to.