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librariandest's review against another edition
3.0
Okay, so I didn't read this entire book, only "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." I saw the Brad Pitt movie recently and thought the plot was awful. I thought, "Did my old buddy Scott really write this garbage?" Upon reading the story (practically by the first paragraph) I realized that, no, what my buddy Scott wrote bears little resemblance to that bad movie. Where the movie is dull and takes itself waaaaay too seriously, the story is sly and goofy and pretty fun.
So I encourage anyone who saw that movie and hated its self-important Forest Gump-isms to read the original story. It's the antidote.
So I encourage anyone who saw that movie and hated its self-important Forest Gump-isms to read the original story. It's the antidote.
zoes_human's review against another edition
The trouble with this collection is best summed up by pointing out that several of the tales are prefaced with a note that F. Scott Fitzgerald did not particularly think well of them. The best of the narratives end fantastically but are merely fair-to-middling along the way. There's also a constant shallowness to the characters which makes his stories, when read en masse, every bit as tiresome as such people are in real life. Finally, there's the decided unpleasantness of people of color being written with the exact same tone and autonomy as an animal.
There is, however, no denying that the man can turn a clever phrase.
After some 300 pages of torture, with only a single 8-page story having been worth my time**, I skipped to the end to attempt to read the reason I obtained the book - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I found it mildly humorous, but, much like the book, not worth completing.
** The one story I completely enjoyed was Porcelain and Pink.
There is, however, no denying that the man can turn a clever phrase.
After some 300 pages of torture, with only a single 8-page story having been worth my time**, I skipped to the end to attempt to read the reason I obtained the book - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I found it mildly humorous, but, much like the book, not worth completing.
** The one story I completely enjoyed was Porcelain and Pink.
cwscott27's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed reading this book. The notes at the begining of each story, and the short glossery at the end gave excellent insight into the context of when these stories were written and published. Some of the stories I loved, a couple were okay, but I enjoyed reading them all.
lonesomelovee's review against another edition
3.0
stories most worth reading:
porcelain and pink
winter dreams
bernice bobs her hair
the curious case of benjamin button
fitzgerald is mostly eh. i expected a lot more because of how much i liked the great gatsby.
porcelain and pink
winter dreams
bernice bobs her hair
the curious case of benjamin button
fitzgerald is mostly eh. i expected a lot more because of how much i liked the great gatsby.
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