Okay, so not the ABSOLUTE best, but by golly definitely one of them. At first, you think, "Oh, no, I'm going to hate this Amory Blaine, I really am." But then he grows on you somehow, because you can say to at least one of the situations he gets in--usually the abortive romantic ones--that you've been there, too. Especially good for young men (although by no means just them) and aspiring writers of whatever gender. I liked the way Fitzgerald experiments a bit (the one scene done in the form of a play) and how he ends the book with a phrase that many of us can say, at the end of our journeys--- "`I know myself,` he cried, `but that is all.`"