This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an intriguing book. I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave it four stars. "This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking...
Publicado originalmente: El Extraño Gato del Cuento This Side of Paradise se me hizo un libro interesante el cual me falló bastante con el final. Si bien la sinopsis ya nos dice que este libro a largo de los años se ha tomado como una especie de biografía del escritor, yo no lo quise tomar así ¿Po...
Fitzgerald is one of my favorite writers and I love how this story could easily be as relevant to young college students today trying to find their place in the world as it was in his time.
What I thought while reading:"Oh look at me, I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald and I was rich and I wrote about rich people blah blah blah...," is totally what Fitzgerald once said.*************************************************What I thought after reading:"F. Scott Fitzgerald?!....THIS is your life!" *smil...
"[...] thinking I regretted my lost youth when I only envy the delights of losing it. Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. [.....
First sentence: "Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while."P. 99: "The fundamental Amory, idle, imaginative, rebellious, had been nearly snowed under."Last sentence: "'I know myself', he cried, 'but that is all.'" From Wikip...
Jack's father has always been a perfectionist, but lately, his need to control every aspect of the family's life has stepped up a notch. Mr. Barrett, Jack's dad, has been offered a wonderful opportunity with the company he works for, the Eden Corporation. Eden owns a gated village in Paradise, a n...
http://twitpic.com/4rl8rehttp://twitpic.com/4rldmb(I read this book at 17; my English teacher was the son of Hemingway's last editor (Movable Feast). Photos taken today.)
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