blakehalsey 's review for:

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.0

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This book is exactly what it sounds like--about beautiful people who pretty much do nothing and as a result, to use a crude term, screw themselves. While I love novels in this time period, Fitzgerald weaves a picture so pathetic of the once rich and lazy couple that by the end of it, I just wanted them, to put it lightly, perish. Maybe that was the point. If so, well done, F.