A review by pmovereem
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford

4.0

A very strange and unique book. I wonder if Fitzgerald read it, because it shares a few important qualities with THE GREAT GATSBY: a) a "merely spectating" first person narrator; b) a chopped-and-channelled chronology; c) a morally ambiguous "hero"; d) a dispirited tone seemingly conjured by society's conventional thinking; and e) a light strain of misogyny. It is FAR, FAR less romantic than GATSBY. I liked it, but Ford's narrator Dowell lingers and lingers and lingers on matters to the point of reader frustration. To an extent, the final 25 pages justify it.