A review by librariandest
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories by Judith S. Baughman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli

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.