by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and the Damned is the story of Anthony and Gloria Patch, young, indolent, alcoholic trust fund babies, spending their lives drifting, waiting for Grandfather Patch to kick it and hand over the cash. Fitzgerald meshes different writing styles throughout the book, which is a bit discombo...
OMG all these people did was give me a headache. What was their point to being alive? I really don't know.Sometimes they seemed naive, sometimes bored, sometimes lazy, sometimes lost, sometimes spoiled, sometimes crazy...the list goes on.
The only other books I've read by F. Scott Fitzgerald, prior to this one, are The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. Both are wonderful, especially The Great Gatsby.The Beautiful and Damned has many pointers to the greatness that was to follow just three years later with the publication ofThe Gre...
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This book grated me. I realized by the end I enjoyed Gloria's perspective far more than Anthony's, although they were both narcissistic, childish, entitled characters. I started to read another book to before I finished this, to give myself a break, because it was giving me pains. It dragged on and ...
This was an intriguing read, but overall a very uneven novel; the three books feel very different in tone and theme, almost as if Fitzgerald were juggling so many issues without the ability to bring them fully into a narrative cohesion. There's a lot going on here: evocations of Freud and how the mo...
First freshman year in college I gobbled up Fitzgerald. Oh those beautiful, tragic, glittering people. In retrospect I just think it's kind of sad that he never got over his envy. For a man who worked so hard it seems odd how much he desired a dissolute life.
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