pickDid I really mean to read a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s last few years and Zelda‘s hospitalization? No. But I did want to read an O‘Nan story. Somehow the author kept my interest through his writing style, even as the book began to lag. Not necessarily O‘Nan‘s fault - I mean how many times can you make it interesting that Fitzgerald fell off the wagon yet again? Would I recommend the book? Probably not. But I enjoyed O‘Nan‘s effort.
Considered a quintessential work of the Jazz Age, the novel follows Amory, an impulsive young man who squanders his college education at Princeton and recklessly falls in love with a girl from the South.
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#Fitz reads 📚 The Beautiful and Damned was the best out of the bunch. 🩷
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Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.
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pickExpat Americans Gerald and Sara Murphy seemed to socialize with the who‘s who of the 1920‘s- Picasso, Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and Dorothy Parker just to name a few. However their generous spirits and zeal for life and art make them equally captivating figures. This biography was very detailed which made it plod along at times but it is a period time I always love reading about. Last book for #fourfoursin23 #glossyposse
pickSuper informative about what Fitzgerald‘s influences were when writing Gatsby. Unfortunately, of course, the story ends the same. His last check was for $13 in royalties. The price of genius, I guess.
picknew version of The Last Tycoon (1941)-originally published after Fitzgerald‘s premature death while in Hollywood. Unfinished then, so this scholar-editor‘s 1993 attempt to reassemble is done well. Even the air of vagueness and disjoint caused by the original incompleteness adds to effect since it's a pic of Hollywood as surreal place where usual rules don‘t apply. Asearing picture of the Hollywood machine in the 1930s and the “ethnics“ therein
4️⃣ I‘ve always meant to read this and never have, my goal is to read more of ‘the classics‘ this year, so this is the first one of those #thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald #kindleread
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